Uptime Targets

What Does 99.95% Uptime Mean?

Calculate the exact allowed downtime budget for 99.95% availability, view industry standards, and copy ready-to-use SLA contract clauses.

99.95% Allowed Downtime Budget

Daily Downtime

43s

Allowed in 24h window

Weekly Downtime

5m 2s

Allowed in 7-day window

Monthly Downtime

21m 55s

Allowed in 30.4 days

Yearly Downtime

4h 22m 48s

Allowed in 365 days

Understanding Three and a Half Nines Availability (99.95%)

A 99.95% uptime target is highly competitive, allowing just 21 minutes and 55 seconds of downtime in a single month. This tier requires high automation, quick automated circuit-breakers, and database cluster failovers to ensure that localized incidents do not trigger a breach.

Industry Uptime Standard

Targeted by premium API providers, payments gateways, and mission-critical cloud hosting services.

SLA Clause Template

High Availability SLA Commitment: The Service will achieve a minimum availability of 99.95% during any calendar billing cycle. Outages are calculated globally from edge testing endpoints. If Uptime drops below 99.95%, Customer is entitled to SLA credits as defined in Section 4.2.

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