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In case you're curious, here's some logs about their status https://status.cloud.google.com/summary https://status.cloud.google.com/summary Looking at Cloud Co

In case you're curious, here's some logs about their status https://status.cloud.google.com/summary https://status.cloud.google.com/summary Looking at Cloud Compute, the one responsible for the outage today and I think the big one a few months ago (13 hours!!!), they still do achieve 99% uptime (having been down 81 hours total this year). While 99% uptime "sounds" great, this is paltry in comparison to AWS, which has set the standard for 99.99% (also known as "4 9s") in reliability, translating to about an hour of downtime per year. Just gives you some more perspective and concrete numbers. Perhaps one of the reasons you find GCP "faster" is due to more devotion of resources to "speed" over "reliability".

lostmyoldone 7y ago
Where is AWS logs for all service outages, partial or not? Can't seem to find them, only "selected" outages. The recent, several hours long, service degradation in Frankfurt EC2 isn't in the historical list, seems like it is only in the rolling status history? AWS and GCloud seem to also be reporting disruptions completely differently, AWS reports on tons of smaller pieces which makes any "aggregate" uptime become something completely different than if you report on larger aggregates as GCloud seems to do. Unless I'm missing something, I don't see how one could compare comparing service availability reasonably without running large numbers of "canary" instances on both providers to actually measure aggregate availability?
jordanthoms 7y ago
I don't think you can judge uptime for either AWS or GCP from the status pages, both of them are slow to update their pages when issues start and plenty of less major issues (which could still bring down a individual customer) never make the status page at all.