The Uptime Institute's report reveals that downtime incidents are increasing and their consequences are becoming more severe. This contradicts the common perception of cloud providers offering 99.99% uptime guarantees. Third-party service providers, including colocation, hosting, or cloud, contribute to a significant portion of downtime. To prevent downtime, Uptime suggests using a multi-home strategy called "Distributed Resiliency." DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the only masterless architecture available from any mainstream database vendor today, offering true zero downtime and deployment freedom across multiple on-premise data centers, cloud providers, or hybrid clouds.