* IAM / Okta
* Cloud VPN services
* Cloud Office (GSuite, Office365)
Good luck naming a large company, bank, even utility that doesn't have some kind of dependency like this somewhere, even if they have mostly on-prem services.
Good luck naming a large company, bank, even utility that doesn't have some kind of dependency like this somewhere, even if they have mostly on-prem services.
"Some kind of dependency" is fine and unavoidable, but well-architected systems don't have hard downtime just because someone somewhere you have no control over fucked up.