What to do if you lose access to Claude while your workflow depends on it?

Since early October, Russian users have faced a new wave of Claude account blocks. For many companies, this has become a critical issue as the model was deeply integrated into workflows via API, including bots, coding agents, and RAG systems. The sudden failure of these services highlights the risks of relying on a single foreign provider. The Reg.cloud team analyzes how to prepare infrastructure for potential outages and ensure a seamless transition between different AI models. The article examines strategies for minimizing risks when using LLMs in production and proposes solutions for creating a flexible architecture that allows for quick switching between providers via a unified API. The authors share their experience on how to make AI tool integration more resilient to external blocks and policy changes by foreign services, helping to avoid prolonged downtime in business processes.