--- title: What does 99.9% uptime mean for inference? | daily.dev description: A breakdown of what 99%, 99.9%, and 99.99% uptime actually mean for AI inference providers, mapping each reliability tier to the specific failure domains it... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/what-does-99-9-uptime-mean-for-inference--srexan4si twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: What does 99.9% uptime mean for inference? | daily.dev og:description: A breakdown of what 99%, 99.9%, and 99.99% uptime actually mean for AI inference providers, mapping each reliability tier to the specific failure domains it... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/what-does-99-9-uptime-mean-for-inference--srexan4si og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/SreXan4Si.png og:image:alt: What does 99.9% uptime mean for inference? og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # What does 99.9% uptime mean for inference? **[Together AI](https://daily.dev/sources/togetherai)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A breakdown of what 99%, 99.9%, and 99.99% uptime actually mean for AI inference providers, mapping each reliability tier to the specific failure domains it must survive. 99% covers node-level failures (GPU faults, driver crashes), 99.9% requires surviving a full data center outage with live multi-DC traffic routing, and 99.99% demands multi-region deployment with reserved failover capacity. The post details real failure modes across compute, network, storage, and software layers, explains why infrastructure ownership matters when things break at 3 a.m., and provides a list of pointed questions to ask any inference provider about their architecture, failover testing, and SLA measurement methodology. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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