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		tiffanyh on May 10, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Incident with Actions, API Requests, Codespaces an... Github doesn't claim "five nines of reliability". There SLA is for 99.9% ("three nines"). Which equates to: `Daily: 1m 26s Weekly: 10m 4.8s Monthly: 43m 28s Quarterly: 2h 10m 24s Yearly: 8h 41m 38s` https://github.com/customer-terms/github-online-services-sla

hobofan on May 10, 2023 [–]

So they don't even manage to stay within the three nines.

Today they already spent their whole quarterly budget. With the incidents April and May they have already exceeded their whole yearly budget.

peterlada on May 10, 2023 | [–]

They are aiming to maintain a single 9 reliability.

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