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Re:Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption by SilasX on Thursday March 02, 2017 @01:33PM (#13776803)
I don't think it even means that; their policy says that the reimbursement only happens when your reliability dips all the way down to three 9s:

https://aws.amazon.com/s3/sla/

Re:Summary of the Amazon S3 Service Disruption by dkersten on Friday March 03, 2017 @06:20AM (#13782126)
The SLA (as you linked) says three nines. The 12 nines quoted by others is durability, not uptime.