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by otterley 66 days ago
Then you should offer to pay them for one. I’m sure they’d love to hear from you, and they could probably deliver one to you for the right price. But it will be a high price.
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They don't offer a ZDR [0] for files, even if you have a BAA or dealing with HIPAA data, no matter how much you pay them. Trust me, we have tried.

[0] https://code.claude.com/docs/en/zero-data-retention

I’m really confused. We were talking about SLAs, not other product features. Are you moving the goalposts?
There isn't an SLA nor is there any protections around file uploads to their services. Two, bad, things can be true at the same time.
Did you talk to them about purchasing an SLA? If so, what did they say?
I feel like you aren't really understanding what a Service-level Agreement actually is in practice. It's not a piece of paper with a specific number of nines and an associated price tag. They can be and often are very complicated documents that take multiple rounds of redlining to arrive at something both parties agree to.

If zero data-retention was non-negotiable for the customer, it's totally possible that the negotiations ended there.

I'm not sure what you're trying to accomplish or unearth beyond what's already been said, which certainly suffices for me.

As both an attorney and SRE, I understand what an SLA is. And you can absolutely get an SLA when you buy cloud services from many vendors, including AWS. Some vendors provide it at all price points; others include it at higher service tiers, without complex negotiations needed at all. And, yes, if it’s not on the menu, you may need to negotiate one. But you can’t conclusively say “they don’t offer one” unless you’ve actually gone to the company and asked.

https://aws.amazon.com/legal/service-level-agreements/

https://trailhead.salesforce.com/content/learn/modules/slack...

https://support.atlassian.com/subscriptions-and-billing/docs...

Before you casually accuse someone of not knowing what they’re talking about, first make sure you’re on firm ground yourself.