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by tracker1 2610 days ago
AWS has one or two a year from what I've seen... IIRC gcp has had outages too... Unless you're designing with several safeguards in place across multiple regions and cloud providers, there's no getting around it.

Everyone has down time, it's just often coordinated to a lot of people when it does happen. It's still generally less than when you try to self host on a cloud provider, it's just not your mistake that did it.
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goobynight 2610 days ago
"an" outage is different from a global outage though.

I'm not sure what the SLA is on a single region, but going down 0-2 times per year is a reasonable expectation, depending on the length of each one. If you want more, you have to have regional failover.

Azure is burning error budget in every region today and you would need to failover to a different cloud provider or your own datacenter.

If I'm interpreting this correctly, there was no plan you could implement solely in Azure that could have helped you today.

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outworlder 2610 days ago
> AWS has one or two a year from what I've seen

Worldwide outage? That's really not the case. Over thousands of machines in 3 years I haven't seen a single failure that spanned more than one region. Or even a region going entirely offline. At most you'll see one service affected.

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