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"just 0.000001% of disk space was permanently affected." So Google just exhausted their 11 9's for centuries to come.

• MichaelGG 11y ago
  Which would be embarrassing if this had happened to a product offering such an SLA. Instead, this is just zone-local HDD storage. It will only affect customers that decided to run a system in a single site, making no snapshots or using cross-region replication, etc. Which may be quite a few seeing as there seems to be this misunderstanding that VMs "in the cloud" have physics-defying redundancy attributes. (Not saying you have this idea, just that multiple clients have expressed surprise when their single-VM setup goes down because "isn't this what the cloud is for?".)
  • TeMPOraL 11y ago
    Well, single VM is not "the cloud". It's just a VM on some dude's computer. Your clients seem to have been mislead by the incredibly content-free marketing around "the cloud".
    • MichaelGG 11y ago
      Basically s/hosted/cloud-based is what everyone has done.