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Re:Google outage – resolved by gsich on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:56AM (#25417519)
In this example: you get free days. Which depending on your business might be worthless if you have suffered more monetary loss due to the downtime than the free days are worth.
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Re:Google outage – resolved by SifJar on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:59AM (#25417549)
But still better than nothing. And for some (most?) people/businesses, probably worth more than any resulting monetary loss
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Re:Google outage – resolved by Cthulhu_ on Monday December 14, 2020 @09:56AM (#25418244)
Exactly; downtime doesn't cost a cloud service much. At worst it causes reputation damage, with possibly large companies deciding to go for a competitor, losing a contract worth tens or hundreds of millions.
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