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Given how much trans-continental/trans-oceanic network cable the major cloud providers own, they almost certainly have special trans-cloud network traffic infra

Given how much trans-continental/trans-oceanic network cable the major cloud providers own, they almost certainly have special trans-cloud network traffic infrastructure. Especially since so much of "The Cloud" is within a few 10s of square miles in a field in Virginia. I can easily see how one provider could majorly disrupt another provider by accidentally breaking inbound traffic on one of those links.

qmarchi 7y ago
The bigger issue is that there's a lot of customers where they have split cloud deployments, which means the customers hurt even if they are stable within the clouds themselves.
- thedance 7y ago
  If you are deployed in such a way that both GCP and AWS need to be up you're doing it backwards. Multi-cloud strategy is supposed to result in the intersection of cloud failures, not the union of them.
  - qmarchi 7y ago
    "But all of our problems are fixed by going to the cloud!"
  - uluyol 7y ago
    I have heard that many companies are multi cloud as a result of acquisitions, resulting in a dependency on both clouds.
gigatexal 7y ago
Yeah, I see that now. Makes total sense.