DT027

Higher Digital Platform Resilience vs. Lower Infrastructure Redundancy Cost

Business Context. Business-critical digital platforms benefit from redundant infrastructure across multiple regions or data centers to ensure resilience against outages, but maintaining full redundancy for every platform component is costly and not always necessary.

Process TRIZ Resolution. Rather than applying uniform redundancy across the entire platform, organizations should identify the specific components whose failure would have the greatest business impact and apply full redundancy there, accepting lower redundancy for less critical components.

Applicable TRIZ Principles

Principle 3 (Local Quality) applies redundancy investment proportional to each component's business impact.

Principle 35 (Parameter Changes) adjusts infrastructure investment based on measured criticality tiers.

Principle 2 (Taking Out) removes unnecessary redundancy from lower-criticality platform components.

Expected Outcome

High resilience where it matters most

Controlled infrastructure cost

Efficient resource allocation

Clear criticality-based investment decisions

Decision Indicators

Every platform component receives the same level of redundancy investment.

Infrastructure cost has grown faster than the business value it protects.

No criticality assessment guides redundancy investment decisions.

Low-criticality components consume disproportionate redundancy budget.

Critical components lack sufficient redundancy despite their importance.

If several of these indicators are present, the contradiction is likely active and the Process TRIZ resolution above should be evaluated.