The dependency.
WHAT CHANGES
Your connection becomes critical infrastructure.
WHAT THAT MEANS
An outage stops work entirely, not partially.
WHAT TO ASSESS BEFORE MOVING ANYTHING
How reliable your connection actually is What an hour of unavailability costs What you could do offline
WHAT TO ARRANGE
A fallback connection, on different infrastructure Offline access to essentials, where the service offers it
WHAT AFFECTS PERFORMANCE
Latency to the provider's region Upload capacity, for synchronisation and uploads Congestion at busy times
THE UPLOAD POINT
Cloud storage synchronising files consumes upload continuously.
That degrades calls and everything else.
WHAT TO TEST BEFORE COMMITTING
Actual performance of the service from your premises, at a busy time.
Not a demonstration on a good connection.
WHAT MATTERS LOCALLY
Power and connectivity reliability at your premises.
Cloud services shift that risk but do not remove it.
WHAT TO PLAN
How you operate during an outage.
