# Mitigating AWS outage

**URL:** <https://forum.scylladb.com/t/mitigating-aws-outage/772>\
**Category:** ScyllaDB\
**Tags:** cloud\
**Created:** [August 10, 2023, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/mitigating-aws-outage/772 "2023-08-10T17:00:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bill\_Dunmire](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.scylladb.com/bill_dunmire/32/235_2.png) [@Bill\_Dunmire](https://forum.scylladb.com/u/Bill_Dunmire)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2023, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/mitigating-aws-outage/772/1 "2023-08-10T17:00:42Z")

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We are considering moving to ScyllaDB Cloud. If there is an outage in an AWS region, how do you mitigate it?

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**Author:** ![Guy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.scylladb.com/guy/32/9_2.png) [@Guy](https://forum.scylladb.com/u/Guy)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2023, 6:15am UTC](https://forum.scylladb.com/t/mitigating-aws-outage/772/2 "2023-08-13T06:15:43Z")

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In a worst-case scenario of all nodes going down, a backup will be used to restore the data.

In most cases, ScyllaDB’s [high availability](https://university.scylladb.com/courses/scylla-essentials-overview/lessons/high-availability/) and data replication ensures that even if some nodes are down, the data remains available. Using multiple data centers, multiple regions, and multiple racks within a region increases the availability and protects against failures.

You can read more about a real-world [incident](https://www.scylladb.com/2021/03/23/kiwi-com-nonstop-operations-with-scylla-even-through-the-ovhcloud-fire/), a fire at a Strasbourg data center, and how [kiwi.com](http://kiwi.com) remained available (as opposed to millions of other websites).