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“2) This issue was global in scope, affecting all of Google's regions. Therefore, in consideration of item 1 above, it was questionable/unpredictable whether or

“2) This issue was global in scope, affecting all of Google's regions. Therefore, in consideration of item 1 above, it was questionable/unpredictable whether or not a user could launch a node pool or even a simple node anywhere in GCP at all.” Ok. So on aws we were* paying for putting systems across regions, but, honestly I don’t get the point. When an entire region is down what I have noticed is that all things are fucked globally on aws. Feel free to pay double - but it seems* if you are paying that much just pay for an additional cloud provider. Looks like it’s the same deal on GCP.

human_error 8y ago
> When an entire region is down what I have noticed is that all things are fucked globally on aws. Do you have an example on this?
- ransom1538 8y ago
  Just grabbed first article. Example: In this case capitalone went down. I don’t work at capitalone - but I imagine they had their data copied across every region 30 times. https://www.geekwire.com/2018/widespread-outage-amazon-web-services-u-s-east-region-takes-alexa-atlassian-developer-tools/ https://www.geekwire.com/2018/widespread-outage-amazon-web-s...
  - jefftk 8y ago
    I think you're much too optimistic about capitalone. They probably had a single point of failure, possibly one they didn't realize they had.
    - carlsborg 8y ago
      CapitalOne is one of the few financial markets firms with open source cloud projects on github. I respect their tech org for that.
- excalq 8y ago
  On 17 October, there was a multi-AZ network failure at us-east-1. It only lasted 3m35s, but it was enough that our customers were calling about our site being down.
  - ghusbands 8y ago
    That's still just one region, unless you were also hosted outside us-east-1.