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I wonder, what's the yearly downtime of Amazon? If S3 were up 99.99% of the time then the remainder .001% is only 5.256 minutes per year. S3 is actually down mo
by forrestthewoods 11y ago
I wonder, what's the yearly downtime of Amazon? If S3 were up 99.99% of the time then the remainder .001% is only 5.256 minutes per year. S3 is actually down more than that. But how much exactly? It's impossible to discuss mitigation strategies if we don't even know what the exact issue we're mitigating is!
- takeda 11y agoThe way it works is that they are promising 99.99%. If it is lower you will be reimbursed for that month (if I remember correctly), but only when you complain to them about it.
- trevyn 11y agoYour math is off for four nines; 100% - 99.99% = 0.01%, which is just over 52 minutes per year. Also fun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability#Percentage_calculation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability#Percentage_c...