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> In contrast, Google has said in the past that GCP is not used by Google engineers (and it shows, occasionally GCP goes down but actual Google products do not
by chimeracoder 9y ago
> In contrast, Google has said in the past that GCP is not used by Google engineers (and it shows, occasionally GCP goes down but actual Google products do not!)
Amazon (the shopping website) is generally online when AWS goes down, so that doesn't really indicate anything.
Also, GCP is directly modeled after the infrastructure that Google uses to develop internally. I don't know if it's actually the same exact infrastructure that they sell as GCP, but it's not like they're developing GCP fresh and selling it.
- tkahnoski 9y agoThis is on point, GCP is modeled after Google's infrastructure not how Google itself is run. Whereas Amazon runs on the same technology just not in the same datacenter. (My impression is that Amazon operates out of a different region than the public AWS. Much like GovCloud isn't the same as the public regions. Hence an AWS region being impacted doesn't necessarily impact Amazon itself since their separately operated.)
- discodave 9y agoThe idea that Amazon uses a different / secret AWS region is false. However, not all of Amazon.com has migrated to AWS.
- dastbe 9y agoNetflix is also generally online when (parts of) AWS goes down, because they've architected their services to be resilient underlying failures (as Amazon and Google have too!). Netflix has blogged quite heavily about this, for example in a relatively recent blog about multi-region redundancy[0]. [0] https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/global-cloud-active-active-and-beyond-a0fdfa2c3a45 https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/global-cloud-active-acti...
- didibus 9y agoAWS never went down. What goes down occasionally are subset of its services in limited regions. And sometimes that does impact the amazon.com website also. Just not every aspect of it.