Availability Definition

Measurement interval is a key to extended outages

Assume 99.5% availability
If one month, allows a failure within the month of > 3.5 hours
If one day, less than 8 minutes per day
Go for the nines!
99.95% allows 22 minutes per month outage
99.995 allows about 2 minutes per month

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