[eeegnu]

> R2 will provide 99.999999999% (eleven 9’s) of annual durability, which describes the likelihood of data loss. If you store 1,000,000 objects on R2, you can expect to lose one once every 100,000 years — the same level of durability as other major providers.

I've seen this kind of marketing allot from cloud providers, and it always makes me wonder. At that point the probability that you're going to lose your data gets dominated by the probability of a rogue employee deleting your data, or of 3 simultaneous natural disasters destroying every warehouse your data was replicated to, or most likely someone gaining malicious access and deleting a bunch of stuff. Those are a little harder to quantify though.

[JTbane]

These sorts of numbers are total bunk- the likelihood is pretty high one of their services go down (or something happens to your connection to Cloudflare) that will knock you offline for a few hours, maybe a day.

[michaelfairley]

Durability is not availability.

[cobookman]

durability != uptime. The 11 9s of durability encompass the likelihood they'd loose your data.

[Dylan16807]

The chance of three simultaneous natural disasters should still be a lot lower than that number. But yeah, hackers or software faults are almost certainly more likely than that number would suggest.