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gairbheil

Re:Amazon Web Services are down on Thursday April 21, 2011 @11:22AM (#2470957)
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.