You$$re meeting with your organization$$s Advisory Board to discuss an upcoming migration of some of your data center$$s functions to the cloud. This is your company$$s first foray into the cloud, and the board members understandably have several questions. Some of the board members are supportive of the project, while others are hesitant and even resistant.

Board member $1$:

I don't trust the cloud, plain and simple. We're putting our data on their hardware, but how do we know their hardware is safe? How do we know their services will be available $24/7$ like we need?

You:

Cloud providers employ a variety of

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techniques to ensure their services are available nearly all the time. Some of the biggest providers guarantee their services are available $99\mathrm{.}99\%$ of the time or better. We can do some research to choose one or more providers that will give us the reliability we need.