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Strawman. Who said that emergency systems don't ever experience downtime? Orgs using mission critical systems would trust a service that has less than 5x9s. >
by colesantiago 3y ago
Strawman. Who said that emergency systems don't ever experience downtime? Orgs using mission critical systems would trust a service that has less than 5x9s.
> Emergency response systems is 99.999% or “five nines” – or about five minutes and 15 seconds of downtime per year.
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/achieving-five-nines-cloud-justice-public-safety/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/publicsector/achieving-five-nin...
I see hospitals will be using AWS and other reliable hosts to use S3 rather than Dropbox.
- jazzyjackson 3y agoHospitals have budgets too, not all of them will spring for the 5th 9
- colesantiago 3y agoAnd AWS is there for the 5th 9, not Dropbox. therefore, Dropbox is not suitable or reliable for these kind of orgs, even with this custom built system they built. One can have a custom built or an experienced IT team using AWS and achieve the same or even better availability using AWS and other providers that care about critical availability, if architected correctly. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/reliability-pillar/understanding-availability-needs.html https://docs.aws.amazon.com/wellarchitected/latest/reliabili...