Besides graceful degradation mentioned in sibling comments, it could also be considered a form of load shedding. https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/using-

Besides graceful degradation mentioned in sibling comments, it could also be considered a form of load shedding. https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/using-load-shedding-to-avoid-overload/ https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/using-load-shedding-...