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Re:Introducing Cloud Spanner, a Global Database Service by btian on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @04:59PM (#13647606)
In general availability is defined in terms of time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability

Five-9s means 5 minutes of downtime per year.

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