# Redundancy in Ignition 8

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/redundancy-in-ignition-8/34954>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [May 21, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/redundancy-in-ignition-8/34954 "2020-05-21T19:46:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![ddurant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ccd318/32.png) [@ddurant](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/ddurant)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 7:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/redundancy-in-ignition-8/34954/1 "2020-05-21T19:46:23Z")

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We just had a situation where our cloud provider (Azure) was down for almost 18 hours. This has made us look at Redundancy as a possible option. What has been people’s experience with Ignition Redundancy and does anyone have any other thoughts on how to keep a system running if one fails?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [May 21, 2020, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/redundancy-in-ignition-8/34954/2 "2020-05-21T20:40:35Z")

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Redundancy works pretty well for my clients using it, always local to the plant, though. Switchover is based on a loss of comms and using two cloud providers could yield some odd failure modes. Switchover is practical in the 5-15 second range, fwiw.