City council asks whether high availability means the citizen portal will never experience any outage forever. How should IT frame high availability at Cloud Practitioner depth?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
High availability is not a magic spell of infinite uptime. It means you design so the portal can keep serving when a piece breaks—not that nothing will ever hiccup. Council hears resilience-through-failure, not an impossible forever-zero promise.
Full Explanation
At foundational depth, high availability means architecting workloads to remain accessible despite component failures; it is not a guarantee of absolute zero downtime forever across all services. It is also distinct from CPU pricing choices and from economies of scale, which address cost characteristics rather than failure resilience.