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GCPs concept of Regions and Zones is different from AWS. For the same level of physical isolation as an AWS AZ you have to use different GCP Regions. https://c
by esprehn 3y ago
GCPs concept of Regions and Zones is different from AWS. For the same level of physical isolation as an AWS AZ you have to use different GCP Regions.
https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones
- deanCommie 3y agoThat link says "Google designs zones to minimize the risk of correlated failures caused by physical infrastructure outages like power, cooling, or networking. Thus, if a zone becomes unavailable, you can transfer traffic to another zone in the same region to keep your services running." Which is clearly false if a single flood can take out an entire region.