HTTP Failover Policy

HTTP Failover Policy is a networking resilience policy that defines when traffic should move to another path or region for application-layer request routing. It uses health signals, priorities, and cooldown windows so teams can recover from outages predictably while keeping evidence, reliability, and public-safe operational boundaries clear.

“The network engineering team used HTTP Failover Policy when a client retried a request, so the team could recover from outages predictably before traffic crossed a service boundary.”