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by sfg75 2281 days ago
> Plus you get 11x9's of availability (99.999999999% availability).

Note that those 9s are for durability

From https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#How_durable_is_Amazon_S3:

"This durability level corresponds to an average annual expected loss of 0.000000001% of objects. For example, if you store 10,000,000 objects with Amazon S3, you can on average expect to incur a loss of a single object once every 10,000 years"