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You have to have two separate cdns and use DNS to fail over. The problem is that means paying for a CDN that just sits dormant for the 99.999% of the time that your primary is down.

Alternatively you could use DNS to fail over to the content you host, instead of another CDN. But in many cases that would be the same as an outage since the CDN exists to reduce the impact of all those requests on your infra



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