The footnote which says that is the design durability against equipment failure literally begins:

> In the unlikely case of the loss or damage to all or part of an AWS Availability Zone, data in a One Zone storage class may be lost. For example, events like fire and water damage could result in data loss

Even if they have payable SLA on this, most SLAs have Acts of God and Acts of War exemption.

If they haven't changed it recently, 11 nines is the durability target by design, but it is not set in any SLA. the S3 SLA is focused on availability.

It seems unreasonable to blame Amazon here. The AZ was destroyed. Are they supposed to have missile/drone defense?

I'm not going to complain to DoorDash if my order is delayed due to a car crash

The SLA excludes force majeure.

I don't think this has any teeth. They don't compensate in the event of loss afaict.

Considering all the data they have globally, they might still be compliant.

They say it's "designed for" 11 9s, not guaranteed.

Hot take: if you have a service that is 11 nines reliable, but there is an underlying component whose reliability is lower, cap the nines to that component.