Disclosure: I work at AWS Some organizations set high SLAs and play the odds that they will meet them, figuring that it's worth it in marketing dollars if they

Disclosure: I work at AWS Some organizations set high SLAs and play the odds that they will meet them, figuring that it's worth it in marketing dollars if they have to pay out. For an AWS SLA like Route53's 100% Availability [1], the service is fundamentally engineered in a way that the SLA will be met. The S3 SLA can be found at [2] [1] https://aws.amazon.com/route53/sla/ https://aws.amazon.com/route53/sla/ [2] https://aws.amazon.com/s3/sla/ https://aws.amazon.com/s3/sla/