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Any cloud provider offering those terms would go out of business VERY quickly. Outages happen, all providers are incentivized to minimize the frequency and sev
by gundmc 7y ago
Any cloud provider offering those terms would go out of business VERY quickly.
Outages happen, all providers are incentivized to minimize the frequency and severity of disruptions - not just from the financial hit of breaching SLA (which for something like this will be significant), but for the reputational damage which can be even more impactful.
- WrtCdEvrydy 7y ago> Any cloud provider offering those terms would go out of business VERY quickly Minimum spends and a 50,000% markup based on adding that term to your contract.
- hn_throwaway_99 7y agoI think you're proving the parent comment's point. The number of businesses willing to pay a 500x markup is exceedingly small (potentially less than 1), and at that point the cost is high enough where it's probably cheaper to just build the redundancy yourself using multiple cloud providers (and, to emphasize, that option tends to be horribly expensive).
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- Dylan16807 7y agoHow often does amazon or google go down for ten minutes? But let's work backwards from the goal instead. If you charge twice as much, and then 20-30% of months are refunded by the SLA, you make more money and you have a much stronger motivation to spend some of that cash on luxurious safety margins and double-extra redundancy. So what thresholds would get us to that level of refunding?
- Cthulhu_ 7y agoAnd all cloud providers will emphasize how you yourself should design your software and architect your infrastructure to be available in multiple regions to achieve the highest availability.