Vetting HA and scale claims in interviews

Lately I keep seeing roles pitch “multi‑region, five 9s” and then discover a single‑region EKS cluster, nightly snapshots, and no budget for cross‑region replication. What concrete signals do you ask for to validate scale and HA maturity — documented RTO/RPO, SLOs with error budgets, last chaos drill date, or proof of active‑active traffic across 2 regions?

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