LLM API Disaster Recovery: What Happens When a Provider Goes Down?
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AI Disaster RecoveryLLM ReliabilityFallbackIncident Response
LLM providers can have outages, rate-limit incidents, or regional performance problems. Your product needs a plan before that happens.
Recovery options
Prepare:
- fallback providers
- degraded modes
- cached answers
- queued background jobs
- user messaging
- incident playbooks
Test the plan
Fallback should be tested regularly. A backup model that was never tested is not a recovery plan.
Communicate clearly
If AI features are degraded, explain the impact to users and support teams.
Final thoughts
LLM disaster recovery is reliability engineering. Plan fallback, test it, and make degradation graceful.