Performance Service Level Agreement

CloudNexus guarantees industry-leading availability, latency, and support response times. Our SLA is backed by transparent monitoring, automated failover, and service credits for any unmet thresholds.

📅 Effective: January 1, 2025 🔄 Updated: Q4 2024 📄 Version: 4.2.1

SLA Tiers & Coverage

Performance guarantees are mapped to your subscription tier. All tiers include baseline DDoS mitigation, 24/7 monitoring, and automated health checks.

Metric Standard Premium Enterprise
Network Uptime 99.9% 99.99% 99.999%
Storage Durability 99.99% 99.999% 99.9999%
Max Latency (p99) < 45ms < 25ms < 12ms
Support Response (Critical) 2 hours 1 hour 15 minutes
Service Credit Cap 100% of monthly fee 200% of monthly fee 300% of monthly fee
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Performance Metrics Defined

Network Uptime

99.999%

Measured as the percentage of time your allocated compute resources maintain active network connectivity and respond to health probes. Excludes scheduled maintenance windows communicated 72h in advance.

Storage Durability

11 Nines

Block and object storage are replicated across a minimum of 3 failure domains. Erasure coding ensures zero data loss events over projected lifecycle metrics.

Packet Loss Tolerance

< 0.01%

End-to-end packet loss measured across core routers and edge POPs. Automatic rerouting triggers instantly upon BGP anomalies or link degradation.

Failover Time

< 30s

Automated instance migration or load balancer health-check removal upon host-level failure. Enterprise tier includes cross-AZ active-active syncing.

Service Credit Policy

If CloudNexus fails to meet the SLA thresholds, service credits are automatically calculated and applied to your next billing cycle. No manual claim required for Standard and Premium tiers. Enterprise customers may request invoice adjustments directly.

Credit Calculation Methodology

  • Uptime Credits: Applied proportionally based on downtime minutes against the monthly availability target. Formula: Credit = (Actual Downtime / Allowed Downtime) × Monthly Service Fee
  • Latency Violations: Triggers if p99 latency exceeds threshold for >15 consecutive minutes across 2+ monitoring endpoints. 10% monthly fee credit per violation day.
  • Storage/Data Loss: Immediate 100% credit for the affected storage volume plus forensic investigation coverage.
  • Exclusions: Credits are not issued for outages caused by customer misconfiguration, unauthorized third-party integrations, force majeure events, or unpatched customer-side security vulnerabilities.

Compliance & Independent Audits

Our SLA commitments are backed by rigorous internal controls and third-party validation. All infrastructure operates within certified security and operational frameworks.

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SOC 2 Type II

Annual audit covering security, availability, and confidentiality controls across all cloud regions.

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ISO 27001:2022

Certified Information Security Management System with continuous risk assessment protocols.

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GDPR & CCPA Ready

Data residency controls, encryption-at-rest/transit, and automated compliance reporting pipelines.

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Real-Time SLA Dashboard

Public and account-level availability dashboards updated every 60 seconds. Historical data retained for 3 years.

Frequently Asked Questions

How is downtime measured and reported?

Downtime is measured using redundant synthetic probes deployed across independent third-party networks and internal edge nodes. A region is marked as unavailable when >50% of health checks fail for a continuous 60-second window. Detailed reports are generated automatically.

Do scheduled maintenance windows affect SLA calculations?

No. Planned maintenance is communicated at least 72 hours in advance and scheduled during off-peak windows. These periods are excluded from uptime calculations. Emergency patches applied for critical security flaws follow the same exclusion policy.

Can I request a custom SLA for legacy or regulated workloads?

Yes. Enterprise customers may negotiate bespoke SLA terms covering specific compliance requirements, dedicated hardware, or custom failover topologies. Contact our Solutions Architecture team to initiate a custom agreement.

What happens if multiple SLA breaches occur in a single month?

Credits are aggregated and applied to the highest violated metric. The maximum credit cap per tier applies per billing cycle. Repeated systemic failures trigger a formal post-incident review and potential contract renegotiation.

Need a Custom Performance Agreement?

Our infrastructure team will design an SLA tailored to your architecture, compliance needs, and traffic patterns.

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