How is service availability measured in the context of cloud technology?

The correct answer is B. Percentage of uptime. Cloud service availability is expressed as a percentage of uptime, often called an SLA (Service Level Agreement). For example, 99.9% uptime ('three nines') means roughly 8.7 hours of allowable downtime per year. This percentage is the industry-standard metric. The number of…

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ANumber of available regions
BPercentage of uptime
CSpeed of response time
DNumber of downtime incidents

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3% (1)
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95% (38)
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Cloud service availability is expressed as a percentage of uptime, often called an SLA (Service Level Agreement). For example, 99.9% uptime ('three nines') means roughly 8.7 hours of allowable downtime per year. This percentage is the industry-standard metric. The number of regions, response speed, and downtime incident count are related concepts but are not the standard measurement of availability.

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