Amazon S3 is "designed to provide" 99.999999999% durability [...] of objects over a given year" (reference)
That's a lot of 9's.
Except that this number is completely useless. What does that even mean?
If I store 100 GB in a year I should expect to lose one byte? That doesn't sound reassuring?
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