Site reliability and 9's
[#rickard-sre-math] makes it clear that adding 9's to your SLAs is a big commitment. While the meaning of a 9 scales linearly, the effort goes exponentially.
Anyways, for refs:
Uptime - Downtime (Yearly)
99.00000% - 3d 15h 39m
99.90000% - 8h 45m 56s
99.99000% - 52m 35s
99.99900% - 5m 15s
99.99990% - 31s
99.99999% - 3s
[#rickard-sre-math]: Matt Rickard. “Service Reliability Math That Every Engineer Should Know,” August 8, 2021. https://matt-rickard.com/service-reliability-math-that-every-engineer-should-know/.