> I don't work at Google but I imagine just working on making it a dedicated goal to have a continuously faulty region would reduce the burden of everyone invol

> I don't work at Google but I imagine just working on making it a dedicated goal to have a continuously faulty region would reduce the burden of everyone involved This sounds nice in theory but I think you are underestimating the vast complexity of large cloud platform internal systems. The amount of work to make this happen reliablely would be immense. You would probably need a few people from each cloud SRE team with some SWE partners working for a year or longer to get this up and running. Then after that we would need to work out all of the bugs caused by these contrived failure modes and build automation to repair damage. It's just too much work to justify when there is so much work to be done for regular prod already