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Because the more powerful parts of the business want it to look green all the time, regardless of the reality. It would be easier to automate it. But they want
by ehacke 6y ago
Because the more powerful parts of the business want it to look green all the time, regardless of the reality.
It would be easier to automate it. But they want to pretend that they have fewer outages than they actually do because if they were honest about how often things break, it would make them look bad in comparison with everyone else who is also lying on their status pages.
- sciurus 6y agoAlthough the initial public notice of an issue can take longer than I'd like, I don't think GCP hides or downplays their incidents the same way AWS does. https://status.cloud.google.com/summary https://status.cloud.google.com/summary has 20 entries for March.