16-17 minutes of down time isn't all that bad if you consider the SLA for GCE is 99.95%: https://cloud.google.com/compute/sla https://cloud.google.com/compute/s

16-17 minutes of down time isn't all that bad if you consider the SLA for GCE is 99.95%: https://cloud.google.com/compute/sla https://cloud.google.com/compute/sla So they can have 262 minutes of down time a year and still be within their SLA.