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Amazon S3 offers new SLA



Posted by: Beth Pariseau
Storage managed service providers

Responding to pressure from newcomers to the storage SaaS market, Amazon announced yesterday that its S3 online storage service will offer a monthly uptime SLA of 99.9%, effective from Oct. 1.

This matches an offer first made by new online storage service player Nirvanix, which came out of stealth last month with its own 99.9% SLA, which at the time Amazon did not match.

It will also come as good news for users of the service, who in the past have complained of unplanned outages and performance issues with the service.

 
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El Blog de Jose Manuel Suárez  |   Oct 22 2007   4:44PM GMT

<strong>Amazon S3</strong>

Hace tiempo que vengo probando este servicio de Amazon que junto con todos los webservices de Amazon me parece una gran revolución que acerca la computación distribuida a quien la requiera a unos precios muy reducidos.
S3 (Simple Storage Service) es …