Security News > 2021 > May > Uptime funk: Microsoft has lifted availability of Azure Key Vault to 99.99%

Microsoft has added another 9 to its availability guarantee for Azure Key Vault, taking the service to 99.99 per cent availability.

The previous level had been backed by a 99.9 per cent Service Level Agreement and the company claimed that extra 9 represented it "Taking the next step in our commitment to the resilience and availability" of the service.

Azure Key Vault is a rather important service for those that have bought into Microsoft's cloud vision.

Word SLA-ad. In the case of the Azure Key Vault SLA, Microsoft "Guarantees" that a Key Vault transaction will be processed within 5 seconds 99.99 per cent of the time.

By our reckoning, that equates to around 4.5 minutes of outage in a given 31 day month for the 99.99 per cent SLA. What you actually get back from Microsoft should the SLA be tripped is worthy of inspection, however.

In the case of Azure Key Vault, there's 10 per cent service credit on offer if things dip below 99.9 per cent and 25 per cent if it gets worse and goes below 99 per cent.

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