The "Quiz of the Day - January 1st" Quiz!

The Quiz of the Day series is designed to test your AWS knowledge on topics such as service announcements, service improvements, major events and other trivia about the AWS cloud, related to a specific day.

The "On This Day" post about January 1st can be found here. An SLA was announced for Amazon EFS back in 2019, so there are some SLA related questions, and since the New Year is all about new beginnings, today's quiz is also focused on making a fresh start.

This quiz contains 5 out of a bank of 6 questions in this category.

An uptime of 99.99% (also known as "four nines" or 4x9s) means an annual allowed downtime/unavailability of:

8h 41m 38s

3d 14h 56m 18s

5m 13s

52m 9.8s

An uptime of 99.999% (also known as "five nines" or 5x9s) means an annual allowed downtime/unavailability of:

5m 13s

52m 9.8s

3d 14h 56m 18s

8h 41m 38s

If you have an SLA of 99.9% what does that mean?

The SLA is a legal construct which provides some compensation if AWS does not meet it. AWS services rarely meet the SLA.

The SLA is a legal construct which provides some compensation if AWS does not meet it. AWS services are designed and built to exceed the SLA.

AWS will always meet or exceed the SLA.

The SLA is a legal construct which provides some compensation if AWS does not meet it. AWS services are designed and built to exactly meet the SLA.

AWS will meet or exceed the SLA 99.9% of the time.

An uptime of 99.9% (also known as "three nines" or 3x9s) means an annual allowed downtime/unavailability of:

8h 41m 38s

5m 13s

3d 14h 56m 18s

52m 9.8s

An uptime of 99% (also known as "two nines" or 2x9s) means an annual allowed downtime/unavailability of:

5m 13s

52m 9.8s

3d 14h 56m 18s

8h 41m 38s

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