9's are useful when they're backed by an actual SLA - like GCP Cloud Storage and AWS S3 availability SLAs. Neither one commits to any durability SLAs whatsoever

9's are useful when they're backed by an actual SLA - like GCP Cloud Storage and AWS S3 availability SLAs. Neither one commits to any durability SLAs whatsoever so I wouldn't put any stock into the 'eleventy nine nines' durability claims.