This 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 dat

This 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.)