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AWS averages about one major outage per year[0]. Google's own status page[1] list near 100 incidents in the past 365 days, only one of which ended on HN frontp

by desdiv 7y ago

AWS averages about one major outage per year[0]. Google's own status page[1] list near 100 incidents in the past 365 days, only one of which ended on HN frontpage. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Amazon_Web_Services#Amazon_Web_Services_Outages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Amazon_Web_Service... [1] https://status.cloud.google.com/summary https://status.cloud.google.com/summary

emerongi 7y ago
Good correction: the outages do happen at a fixed rate. Regarding GCP, I only see a couple events that have lasted more than 8 hours, not sure how many of those affect more than one subsystem.
Buge 7y ago
Both of these Google outages made it to the HN frontpage: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077421 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20077421 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20338263 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20338263 Both of these AWS outages made it to the HN frontpage (and neither are listed in that AWS timeline): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20298719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20298719 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19749781 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19749781