Re:Switching to AWS Graviton slashed our infrastructure bill...
by lantry on Wednesday November 30, 2022 @04:32PM
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you can hit three nines even if you're down for 1.5 minutes every day, or ten minutes a week. It's really not as hard to hit as it sounds. For a compute heavy process that isn't end user facing (e.g. batch processing) it's perfectly viable.
Also, most cloud providers don't guarantee five nines anyway. GCE SLA is 99.5 on a single instance, 99.99 on a region
Of course, running a server in your house is not going to achieve five or even three 9's of reliability, and even colocating a single rack in a single location might be more expensive than putting that infra in AWS (depending on how data-heavy your use case is, given AWS' exorbitant data transfer costs).