To be clear, GCS has had multi-region support (the "Standard" storage class), we're just making it explicit in the name. To add to hurstdog's response, I'd say:

To be clear, GCS has had multi-region support (the "Standard" storage class), we're just making it explicit in the name. To add to hurstdog's response, I'd say: No, most outages for GCP have not been global. In particular, most Compute Engine outages are single zone and caused by either a networking configuration change (often affecting VM <=> Internet connectivity, like https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/16004 https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/16004) or sometimes a software rollout to our VM infrastructure. Much like with GCS (and any service at Google), the most common source of outages is a rollout. While we strive to offer zonal and regional services where appropriate, some like GCS and PubSub do have real value as "global" APIs. Trust me though, hurstdog spends a lot of his time struggling with that balance ;). Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud.