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you're putting yourself at risk of split-brain though (or downtime due to fail-over (or the lack of it)).

In either case what you're describing isn't really the 'cloud' alternative.

Yeah, that's a complication/cost of HA that a significant portion of industry has long accepted. Everywhere I've been in the last 5 years has had this assumption baked in across all distributed systems.

Where possible, my organization tries and have services deployed in sets of three (and try and require a quorum) to reduce/eliminate split-brain situations. And we're very small scale.

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