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Try hosting a web site that serves Iranian people or a variety of other embargoed countries on GCP. You can't, nor will you find any hint of it documented anywh
by _wmd 10y ago
Try hosting a web site that serves Iranian people or a variety of other embargoed countries on GCP. You can't, nor will you find any hint of it documented anywhere, or any legal indication things must be this way.
At the simplest level when I buy compute time that looks like everybody else's compute time, I don't want to find after the fact that its provisioning is entangled in some weird corporate ideology that is now impacting my end users, left waiting to be discovered by the unsuspecting victim long after they've made plans around GCP.
(This is a true story from 2 months back, same shit used to happen with App Engine all the time)
- lobster_johnson 10y agoWhat on earth does that have to do with the quality of their support?
- _wmd 10y agoMassive intentionally undocumented gaps in service? That's the antithesis of support
- lobster_johnson 10y agoSupport == help desk. Not "features".
- euyyn 10y agoWhy would you think there's an intention to hide it?
- daenney 10y agoThat's because Google, as an American company, needs to ensure it doesn't violate certain trade embargoes, trade export law and other sanctions imposed on specific countries, like Iran. Here is a list of likely affected territories: https://support.google.com/a/answer/2891389?hl=en https://support.google.com/a/answer/2891389?hl=en Google restricts access to some of its business services in certain countries or regions, such as Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. If you try to sign in to these services from these countries or regions, the following error appears: You appear to be signing in from a country where G Suite accounts are not supported. Certain Google services, such as Gmail, might be available in these countries or regions for personal use, but not for business or education use. Though some of the Google services are available for personal use in those countries, commercial use is restricted. A cloud would count as commercial use, even if it's only to host your own stuff. GCP is far from the only cloud to suffer from it and many other services impose this too. The Docker Hub does it too for example.
- justinclift 10y agoDidn't Iran come off the US embargo list a few months back, with a bunch of media fanfare at the time?
- manigandham 10y agoThis is global politics, not a single corporation. Your complaints are against the completely wrong entity here.
- jasonvorhe 10y agoComplain to the US government.