If you were running the data center instead of Google, it'd suddenly stop being cloud. How would that change lightning and power loss? Google Compute Engine of

If you were running the data center instead of Google, it'd suddenly stop being cloud. How would that change lightning and power loss? Google Compute Engine offers customers the option to make snapshots for backup, or use a true "cloud" storage engine. If anyone lost data here it was customers explicitly not doing backups and only using a single zone. I don't know why anyone would expect different. GCE easily allows you to network machines in multiple data centers, but close geographically. So you'd only need to handle region-wide disasters.