RELIABILITY & SRE • 309 / 397
Apply familiar SRE thinking to AI dependencies and workflows.
Availability
Availability is the proportion of time a service can successfully perform its intended function.
Think of it like
Think of Availability exactly as you would in production infrastructure: assume components fail and design the user experience around controlled failure.
Real life
Banks, airlines and large online services use Availability to keep critical systems dependable.
SRE lens
Measure the AI experience, not only whether the HTTP endpoint responds.
Remember thisAvailability is the proportion of time a service can successfully perform its intended function.