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It's because of sanctions, but it's not recent. I think GCP had always blocked Iran, but I'm not sure. In any case, Azure and AWS are complying with the same s
by smnrchrds 7y ago
It's because of sanctions, but it's not recent. I think GCP had always blocked Iran, but I'm not sure.
In any case, Azure and AWS are complying with the same sanctions without a blanket ban. After all, they are American companies as well. Azure and AWS don't allow customers from Iran to purchase hosting services, but don't block access to all sites hosted on their platforms, and it seems that this is enough for US regulators to not consider them in violation of sanctions. I imagine Google has taken an extreme "better safe than sorry" approach which other players have fortunately decided not to copy.
- sterlind 7y agoI bet it's technical. Both GCP, YouTube and other Google properties suffered recently due to a misconfigured core switch in one of their regions. This implies they share at least network fabric between GCP and everything else. They probably slapped a blanket block over some shared infrastructure, and decided GCP is too much of a small-fry to justify the legal and technical work to be more nuanced. (Disclosure: I work for MS but have no knowledge of our sanction compliance stuff)