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Are you joking? Please tell me that’s a joke, because there’s no way a cloud provider that big could be that daft. If that’s true, what’s the fucking point of
by messe 4y ago
Are you joking? Please tell me that’s a joke, because there’s no way a cloud provider that big could be that daft.
If that’s true, what’s the fucking point of separating them at all?
- aa-jv 4y agoUp-sell.
- klodolph 4y agoBecause power / network / software maintenance events cause outages. Those are scheduled per zone, and so they will take down one zone but not a whole data center.
- jsty 4y agoMinimising the blast radius from logical changes (software & config) that get rolled out at an AZ-level. Their descriptions[0] however promise zones have a "high degree of independence from one another in terms of physical and logical infrastructure". Just how well separated this physical zonal infrastructure was remains to be seen ... [0] https://cloud.google.com/architecture/disaster-recovery#regions_and_zones https://cloud.google.com/architecture/disaster-recovery#regi...
- traderj0e 4y agoYeah I feel like that description is a lie. Some customers would probably think twice about putting things into the same region if they knew zones weren't physically separated, or go to AWS.
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