One of the primary benefits of the public cloud is its geographical dispersion of resources. This distribution allows you to build highly available solutions at low cost. Availability covers a number of diverse topics. Depending on the customer, it can be measured in different ways. Traditionally, system uptime was the primary indicator. In the pre-cloud era, five nines was a good goal to have. This meant that your systems were up 99.999% of the time; downtime could be no more than five and a half minutes per year. As microservices became more prevalent in the cloud era, and systems got distributed across the globe, five nines became unrealistic. This is because complex systems inherently have more potential failure points and are more difficult to implement correctly. In a simple example with three components, each having five nines, the formula 99.999...
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