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Re:How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud by WhatIsDukkha on Saturday November 12, 2016 @04:29PM (#12940320)
"""For what it's worth, hardware doesn't provide an IOPS/latency SLA either ;)."""

Actually it really does for all practical purposes.

When it fails its SLA you replace it.

Re:How We Knew It Was Time to Leave the Cloud by diziet on Saturday November 12, 2016 @06:18PM (#12940756)
On the storage front, even enterprise grade SSDs with hundreds of thousands of 4k read and write IOPs set up in over-provisioned arrays won't give you a great SLA unless you really lowball it and say the SLA is 99th percentile latency / IOPS is 1/2 benchmarked and the hardware has to sustain that latency/IOPS for 99.99% (after benchmarking out to figure out cache vs sustained performance)

That's just storage, now you need to add so many layers on top of it. Like @boulos said, it is then your fault, but your customers still see the issues.