On Jan 14 (08:34–14:17 UTC) Anthropic reported elevated error rates on Opus 4.5 and Sonnet 4.5. Vercel AI Gateway automatically failed over requests to alternative providers such as AWS Bedrock, delivering 99.99% uptime for tokens requested. For production AI workloads, gateways also provide observability, governance, cost monitoring, and a unified control plane for multiple model providers.