In this episode of Beneficial Intelligence, I discuss how to calculate the cost of downtime. Downtime cost is not linear, so you have to consider the cost and probability of different downtime intervals. I talk about the downtime considerations you need to make when considering a cloud solution, as well as how to determine if a high availability option is worth the cost. Your job is to find the lowest total cost, and downtime cost is part of that calculation. 

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