Availability · Estimate

A service promises 99.99% availability. How much downtime does that allow in a year?

easy Estimation

Answer

About 53 minutes per year. In review, anything from 35.3 to 79.5 counts as right.

The worked estimate

A year has 365 × 24 × 60 = 525,600 minutes. 0.01% of that is 525,600 × 0.0001 ≈ 53 minutes a year, or about 4.3 minutes a month. Each extra nine divides the allowed downtime by ten.

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