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Design a multi-region, highly available LLM serving platform with failover and bounded cost.

GPUs are scarce and expensive, so multi-region HA for LLMs is not just web-app HA with bigger boxes. Capacity, routing, and failover all bend around the GPU constraint. Here is the design.

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GPUs are scarce and expensive, so multi-region HA for LLMs is not just web-app HA with bigger boxes. Capacity, routing, and failover all bend around the GPU constraint. Here is the design.

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