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Systems and methods for high availability cloud service provision are disclosed. A server receives, from a remote device, a request to access a specified service, the specified service being associated with a plurality of virtual machines, each of the plurality of virtual machines storing shared states associated with the specified service. The server provides, to the remote device in response to the request, a connection to a first virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines and identifiers of other ones of the plurality of virtual machines. The server determines to end a data connection the remote device and the first virtual machine while continuing to provide the specified service to the remote device. The server provides, to the remote device in response to determining to disconnect the remote device from the first virtual machine, a connection to a second virtual machine of the plurality of virtual machines.