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9. Availability and Economics of 9s

Suren Machiraju1  and Suraj Gaurav1
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Issaquah, WA, USA
 

Your customers depend on your cloud application to complete tasks. Even the smallest amount of downtime at an inopportune moment could mean a customer is not able to complete a task, which ultimately leads to a loss in revenue for you and, more importantly, the erosion of the customer’s confidence. Therefore, you must ensure that your cloud application is available when your customers need it. However, a high level of availability requires a significant investment of time and effort.

In this chapter, we discuss design ...

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