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It is always worth pointing out, since few people are aware of this, that the servers you rent from Google Cloud do not accept any network packets from US-sanct
by miracle2k 8y ago
It is always worth pointing out, since few people are aware of this, that the servers you rent from Google Cloud do not accept any network packets from US-sanctioned countries; if you are ideologically inclined to the idea of an internet with few borders, free software and so forth, then Google Cloud is arbitrarily crippled infrastructure.
In any case, people should be aware of those limitations when choosing a provider.
- pier25 8y agoI was hit by this. One of my projects needed to be used by some users in Cuba, and guess what? GCP doesn't work from Cuba. I had to adapt one of the features of the project to upload files to AWS S3 which works perfectly there.
- dsl 8y agoThe Cuban citizens that have access to the internet do so through Nauta, a government ran network of wifi hotspots. This network is heavily filtered and operates basically on a whitelist. Even if GCP accepted packets from Cuba, your problems probably would have persisted on the Cuban end too.
- pier25 8y agoI'm not certain of that. Like I said, AWS S3 works fine.
- rcfox 8y ago"Sanctioned" is a weird word, meaning both "approved" and "punished". I always have to look extra hard at it...
- briffle 8y agowait.. Does AWS or Azure? that seems like a good way to get someone fined..
- miracle2k 8y agoNeither AWS nor Azure have this kind of block. Nor does Digital Ocean or others. Neither are Google Products such as Gmail blocked. It's ironic that it's fine for Google to provide it's products in those countries, but not for me, if I host my app on their cloud. US sanctions do not require an infrastructure provider to do this, much like they do not require a broadband provider to filter packages destined to those countries.
- pas 8y agoCould you link to some docs on this?