Glossary
Redundancy
Deploying backup AI agent instances or alternative systems to ensure continued availability if primary agents fail or become unavailable.
What is Redundancy?
Redundancy is a fundamental reliability strategy where critical agent functions have fallback options. This can involve running multiple instances of the same agent across different infrastructure, maintaining standby agents ready to activate during failures, or having alternative agents with overlapping capabilities. Redundancy ensures business continuity even when individual components fail.
Implementing redundancy requires careful architecture to avoid single points of failure while managing the cost and complexity of duplicate systems. Hot standbys provide instant failover but consume resources continuously, while cold standbys are economical but involve recovery delays. Effective redundancy also includes data synchronization, health monitoring, and automated failover mechanisms.
Example
An e-commerce company runs its product recommendation agent across three cloud regions. When the primary region experiences an outage, traffic automatically fails over to the secondary region within seconds, maintaining continuous service without customer impact or lost revenue.
How Signet addresses this
Signet evaluates redundancy as part of the Stability dimension. Agents with robust failover capabilities and demonstrated high availability earn higher Stability scores, as they prove reliable even under adverse conditions like infrastructure failures or regional outages.
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