Eve will meet or exceed 99.5% uptime availability for every calendar month of the Term.
The Service is engineered with minimal downtime by design. There are occasions in which scheduled or emergency maintenance are required to maintain long-term service availability and will not be counted toward downtime. Eve will communicate scheduled maintenance and emergency maintenance which impacts service availability as appropriate.
Customer will act in good faith to support overall Service Availability and must maintain the following:
The following conditions are excluded from the calculation of monthly unavailability events:
In the event Eve is unable to meet the availability target for a calendar month and Customer meets its obligations under this agreement, the Customer may issue a request for Service Credits from Eve. Any request for Service Credits must be made by the customer in writing to Eve by an authorized representative of the Customer. Any Service Credits awarded will be in the form of future service fees beyond the current Term.
Capitalized terms not defined herein shall have the same meaning ascribed to them in the Master Services Agreement.
Service Availability:
The total number of minutes in a month, minus the number of minutes of Downtime in a month, divided by the total number of minutes in a month.
Downtime:
The period of time in whole minutes where the Service is unavailable to all users of the Customer. Downtime does not include: Scheduled or Emergency Maintenance, and Exclusions (see above). Any period of downtime less than half of one minute will not be counted as Downtime.
Scheduled Maintenance:
The period of time in minutes of unavailability of the Service which is used to conduct service maintenance activities. Scheduled Maintenance excludes normal operating maintenance activities that do not impact Customer’s use of the Services.
Emergency Maintenance:
The period of time in minutes of unavailability of the Service which is used to conduct maintenance activities which cannot be planned and may be used to address a security issue, prevent Service disruption, prevent data corruption, or comply with legislative requirements.