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This affects us too. We were able to migrate to zeit now in ~30 mins.

Will you migrate back to Netlify when Zeit will suffer a similar downtime?

We're definitely staying on Netlify after this outage is done. We pay for some of their enterprise features, e.g. audit logs. We just need our sites up right now and zeit was a fast, temporary alternative

Do your DNS records have a short TTL to enable such a quick switch from one provider to another?

Fortunately (or non-optimally), our DNS TTLs were 300s (Route 53 default) so our sites were not fully accessible off Zeit for ~5 mins. This wasn't too bad given that our sites were completely inaccessible from Netlify.

One day when we're bigger, we'll extend those TTLs

Short TTLs are bad, but I confess using them in some small scale projects in anticipation of this kind of worst case scenario :)

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