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No. In some sense it doesn't matter though. There are plenty of services that have less than their claimed reliability: * They set an easy measurement that doe
by scottlamb 6y ago
No. In some sense it doesn't matter though. There are plenty of services that have less than their claimed reliability:
* They set an easy measurement that doesn't match customer experience, so they say they're in-SLO when common sense suggests otherwise.
* They require customers jump through hoops to get a credit after a major incident.
* The credits are often not total and/or are tiered by reliability (so you could have a 100% uptime and not give a 100% discount if you serve some errors). At the very most, they give the customer a free month. It's not as if they make the customer whole on their lost revenue.
With a standard industry SLA, you can have a profitable business claiming uptime you never ever achieve.