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None of the big cloud providers have unrecoverably lost hosted data yet, despite sorting vast volumes, so this doesn't seem BS to me.
by jefftk 7y ago
None of the big cloud providers have unrecoverably lost hosted data yet, despite sorting vast volumes, so this doesn't seem BS to me.
- mentat 7y agoAWS lost data in Australia a few years ago due to a power outage I believe.
- anbop 7y agoon EBS, not on S3. EBS has much lower durability guarantees
- nullwasamistake 7y agoNot losing any data yet doesn't give justification for such absurd numbers
- joshuamorton 7y agoThose numbers probably aren't as absurd as you think. 16 9s is, I think 10 bytes lost per exabyte-year of data storage. There's perhaps the additional asterisk of "and we haven't suffered a catastrophic event that entirely puts us out of business". (Which is maybe only terrorist attacks). Because then you're talking about losing data only when cosmic-ray bitflips happen simultaneously in data centers on different continents, which I'd expect doesn't happen too often.