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0 pointsnine_k8y ago0 comments

You're mixing the technical availability, as in the amount of downtime, with organizational availability, as in your contract being abruptly terminated.

Even with 100% technical availability (no downtime ever), organizational / legal risks exist. No company can realistically be free of them. Amazon, compared to many smaller companies, may have somehow lower risks of this sort: they are hard to shut down.

If you care about your data really much, you likely have backups and / or mirror copies of it across several providers, in multiple countries, and have a well-tested contingency plan to move a complete copy of your production service to any of 2-3 other providers. (And likely most people don't have your risks and the amount of money enabling this all.)

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zzzcpan8y ago

It doesn't make sense to me to think of durability for cloud storage services as anything other than the probability of data retention for a client, which is impacted by your contract being abruptly terminated too, although not by the amount of downtime.

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0 pointsnine_k8y ago0 comments

You're mixing the technical availability, as in the amount of downtime, with organizational availability, as in your contract being abruptly terminated.

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