I kept asking how many 9s of reliability That's a nonsensical question to ask. If your business is amongst the chosen few that can justify the cost to guarant

I kept asking how many 9s of reliability That's a nonsensical question to ask. If your business is amongst the chosen few that can justify the cost to guarantee any number of nines then your availability strategy involves multiple vendors anyways. The cloud is not for all businesses. Whether Amazon can be part of an availability strategy has nothing to do with the number of nines.