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Do you mean Google included "acts of God" when computing 9's? That's definitely not right.

11 9's of durability means mean time to data loss of 100 billion years. Nothing on earth is 11 9's durable in the face of natural (or man-made) disasters. The earth is only 4.5 billion years old.

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Normally, companies store more than 1 byte of data, and the 9's (not just for data loss, for everything) are ensemble averages.

By the way, I don't doubt that AWS has plenty of 9's by that metric - perhaps more than GCP.