Re:Amazon Web Services are down
by gairbheil on Thursday April 21, 2011 @11:22AM
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No, your decimal point is off. 0.05% * 0.05% = 0.0005 * 0.0005 = 0.00000025, or 0.000025%. It works out to an expected downtime of 8 seconds per year, instead of over 4 hours for one location.
Of course, redundancy doesn't set itself up, so there are added costs on top of Amazon.
Of course, redundancy doesn't set itself up, so there are added costs on top of Amazon.