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Even the ridiculously-conservative telecoms measure their uptime in "nines". Four-nines, five-nines, whichever. "100%" is not a meaningful target.

> That doesn't mean it doesn't suffer from failures in one or multiple AZs or that it is perfect

If "100% reliability" doesn't mean 100% uptime for all users, then what does it mean?



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