From ed545d81d1cb319146decca2dd9453889e11457f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Stirnaman <stirnamanj@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2023 13:31:18 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Data durability: write ahead vs S3 replication (#5112)
Fixes #5111
- Clarify intro.
---
.ci/vale/styles/Vocab/InfluxData/accept.txt | 1 +
.../cloud-dedicated/reference/internals/durability.md | 5 ++---
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/.ci/vale/styles/Vocab/InfluxData/accept.txt b/.ci/vale/styles/Vocab/InfluxData/accept.txt
index 86db464c8..1d219d373 100644
--- a/.ci/vale/styles/Vocab/InfluxData/accept.txt
+++ b/.ci/vale/styles/Vocab/InfluxData/accept.txt
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ upsert
urls
venv
VSCode
+WALs?
Webpack
xpath
XPath
diff --git a/content/influxdb/cloud-dedicated/reference/internals/durability.md b/content/influxdb/cloud-dedicated/reference/internals/durability.md
index 1091be5e8..8fcf52f8d 100644
--- a/content/influxdb/cloud-dedicated/reference/internals/durability.md
+++ b/content/influxdb/cloud-dedicated/reference/internals/durability.md
@@ -14,9 +14,8 @@ related:
- https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/DataDurability.html, AWS S3 Data Durabililty
---
-{{< cloud-name >}} replicates all time series data in the storage tier across
-multiple availability zones within a cloud region and automatically creates backups
-that can be used to restore data in the event of a node failure or data corruption.
+{{< cloud-name >}} writes data to multiple Write-Ahead-Log (WAL) files on local storage and retains WALs until the data is persisted to Parquet files in object storage.
+Parquet data files in object storage are redundantly stored on multiple devices across a minimum of three availability zones in a cloud region.
## Data storage