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5 questions in Platform SLOs.

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A platform team is about to publish its first commitments to internal consumers - 99.95% monthly availability on the ingress and the config service plus a 15-minute objective for deploys. What does the platform give up by publishing that, and when does the bill arrive?

A product team commits to 99.95% availability. Their service depends on your platform's ingress, config service and secret manager. What do you tell them?

Application teams say the platform is unreliable. The platform team's dashboard shows 99.95% on every component. How do you resolve this?

Should an internal platform have SLOs, and what should they cover?

Why should a platform publish SLOs to internal consumers, and what should they cover?