That's a relatively new feature (from November 2018... wow, has it been a year already?). My guess is that they implemented this stuff before that existed or maybe near to its release.
I have not used origin failover either, though I'm pretty sure you're right that this is its exact use-case.
You are correct, this has been implemented before Origin Groups have been released and they might be a viable alternative, but we haven’t tested them yet.
My concern is you (contentful) are leading folks down a bad path. Adding complexity, code, cost and a larger surface area of services that need to be up.
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Confused - why not use CloudFront Origin Groups? https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudFront/latest/Develope...
Full disclosure, I've never used, but pretty sure this feature was created for the scenario you are trying to solve.
That's a relatively new feature (from November 2018... wow, has it been a year already?). My guess is that they implemented this stuff before that existed or maybe near to its release.
I have not used origin failover either, though I'm pretty sure you're right that this is its exact use-case.
You are correct, this has been implemented before Origin Groups have been released and they might be a viable alternative, but we haven’t tested them yet.
Source: I work at Contentful.
My concern is you (contentful) are leading folks down a bad path. Adding complexity, code, cost and a larger surface area of services that need to be up.