Survive Cloud Vendor Crashes with Netlify and Fauna: A company should architect its application to isolate vendor risk in order to be more confident exploring cutting-edge vendor capabilities, as the impact of a vendor outage will only affect non-critical services. This can be achieved through various cloud vendor independence strategies, including fully independent services, tightly coupled services, mission critical multi-cloud, and one cloud. Each strategy has its own set of costs and benefits, with fully independent services being the safest but also the most complex to implement. Tightly coupled services offer a fast time-to-market but come with significant risks, while mission critical multi-cloud provides a balance between risk management and flexibility. Sticking to a single vendor's cloud is not recommended due to vendor lock-in and lack of operational simplicity. Companies like Fauna and Netlify provide solutions for multi-cloud architectures, offering robust failure handling and operational simplicity for critical services such as databases and web servers. By adopting a multi-cloud approach, businesses can minimize risks while still exploring the benefits of cutting-edge cloud innovations.