I'll keep this short since I am short on time. Managing in the cloud doesn't remove the management of your systems so much as it removes the need to keep up with licensing, etc. The group you work for needs to do some in-house maintenance before moving to the cloud unless they move to a fully...
If I understand this correctly you leave the second link as passive in configuration and it still goes down? Is the second path on a different or same subnet?
Funny because I read an article yesterday that stated Samsung was going to scale back production to keep prices up. Further down it stated that Micron and Hynix might follow suite.