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The reason why you should use a provider to orchestrate your containers in the cloud is not only because of the ease of creating services, but also because the platform will take care of keeping it up and running.

So, if your container goes wrong and needs to be stopped, restarted, or even killed and recreated, the platform will do it automatically.

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