this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2023
636 points (98.3% liked)

Ask Lemmy

26890 readers
3510 users here now

A Fediverse community for open-ended, thought provoking questions

Please don't post about US Politics. If you need to do this, try [email protected]


Rules: (interactive)


1) Be nice and; have funDoxxing, trolling, sealioning, racism, and toxicity are not welcomed in AskLemmy. Remember what your mother said: if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. In addition, the site-wide Lemmy.world terms of service also apply here. Please familiarize yourself with them


2) All posts must end with a '?'This is sort of like Jeopardy. Please phrase all post titles in the form of a proper question ending with ?


3) No spamPlease do not flood the community with nonsense. Actual suspected spammers will be banned on site. No astroturfing.


4) NSFW is okay, within reasonJust remember to tag posts with either a content warning or a [NSFW] tag. Overtly sexual posts are not allowed, please direct them to either [email protected] or [email protected]. NSFW comments should be restricted to posts tagged [NSFW].


5) This is not a support community.
It is not a place for 'how do I?', type questions. If you have any questions regarding the site itself or would like to report a community, please direct them to Lemmy.world Support or email [email protected]. For other questions check our partnered communities list, or use the search function.


Reminder: The terms of service apply here too.

Partnered Communities:

Tech Support

No Stupid Questions

You Should Know

Reddit

Jokes

Ask Ouija


Logo design credit goes to: tubbadu


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've consulted with many companies trying to save money by moving to AWS because they have twelve 9s of availability. They don't do any redundant deployments because they want to save money.

I keep telling them that the SLA just means that AWS will give them a refund for anything you couldn't use while they have an outage. There's no guarantee.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

So they just treat their uptime target sorta like the office and bankruptcy? "I declare 12 9s!"

Like, bruh, you actually have to pay for that if you want it, wtf?

I guess it is a bit like car batteries. A 4 year warranty doesn't guarantee it will last 4 years, it means you get a refund if it doesn't. (Though unless they're idiots they build the batteries so statistically it is somewhat more common to last that long vs dying early).