alk to an external service - such as a database endpoint provided by a cloud provider. There are often multiple endpoints to chose from depending on where your workload is running. For example, Amazon&rsquo;s DynamoDB provides <a href=https://docs.aws.amazon.com/general/latest/gr/ddb.html>several endpoints</a> across their regions. You typically want to choose the endpoint closest to your workload for latency reasons, but you may need to configure automatic failover to another endpoint in case things are no