Datacenters are having fewer, but bigger failures
And neither AI nor international conflict are helping
There's good news and bad news when it comes to datacenter uptime. According to a recent report from the Uptime Institute, bit barns have actually gotten more resilient over the past five years. However, the report suggests that those datacenter failures that do occur are lasting longer and costing more to resolve.
According to Uptime, half of the operators surveyed reported an impactful or serious outage in the past three years. “This is the lowest level recorded since 2020 and continues a multi-year trend of improving reliability.”
However, the report also finds that datacenter operators may be having a harder time adding additional 9s of reliability to their SLAs. According to Uptime, failure rates are falling at a slower pace, suggesting that existing efforts to improve resiliency may be at the point of diminishing returns.
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