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It is just so expensive to provide 99% uptime on your own servers. Who is going to go into the office at 2:00AM when an executive can't access his power point presentation?



That comparison doesn't make sense. Google's SREs doesn't get out of bed just because you can't access your powerpoint either.


That is because Google has technicians 24/7/365 at their data centers.




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