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S3 SLA is actually for only three nines (99.9%) or 8.76 hours / year or 43.8 minutes / month of downtime: https://aws.amazon.com/s3/sla/

CloudFront offers the same availability. Many CDNs offer no more than three nines. Some claim 100%, but there will eventually be faults. Most do really well to not have recognized outages, but I nonetheless think they offer 100% to guarantee so that you always get credit for any downtime rather than guaranteeing they are never down.

You can look at replicating files to multiple providers; the following shows what kind of uptimes you can expect from the big players: https://cloudharmony.com/status-1year-of-storage

If you can live with read-only states with CDN; a similar report: https://cloudharmony.com/status-1year-of-cdn



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