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Cloud provider stats are based on aggregate numbers. If they claim 99.999% of all data is retained, and they have 100,000 TB of data collectively, then if they
by throwway120385 2y ago
Cloud provider stats are based on aggregate numbers. If they claim 99.999% of all data is retained, and they have 100,000 TB of data collectively, then if they lose your entire 1 TB of data then they can still claim that they maintain 99.999% of data as long as they don't lose anyone else's data.
- crazygringo 2y agoSure, in theory. But in practice everybody's data is widely distributed. So I'm not sure what kind of event you're imagining that would take down one customer's data and no one else's. It's not an issue. Whereas if you're warehousing all your data in a single physical location, it's vastly more likely for it to be fully destroyed due to a fire/earthquake/flood/etc.