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Understanding High Availability Configurations

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What is High Availability?

  • Is a characteristic of the system design which makes resource available even in the case of any component failure in a computer system.
  • Availability refers to the amount of time the system is in a functioning condition
  • General Availability: 100% – Downtime
SLA Calculator
Percent Uptime Max Downtime / Year Equiv. Downtime / Day
90% 36.5 days 2.4 hours
99% 3.65 days 14 minutes
99.9 8.76 hours 86 seconds
99.95 (EC2 Uptime SLA) 4.38 hours 43 seconds

Important Points

  • Improving availability leads to cost increases. It’s important to balance  betweeen the cost factor and the availability.
  • SLA of your organization matters.  90% SLA means 2.4 hours of downtime every day.
  • You can use Pingdom to get reports on your website’s uptime.

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