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> customers would beat us up over pricing compared to GCP blob storage, but the comparison was unfair because Google would store your data in the same building

by medler 3y ago

> customers would beat us up over pricing compared to GCP blob storage, but the comparison was unfair because Google would store your data in the same building I don’t think this is true. Per the Google Cloud Storage docs, data is replicated across multiple zones, and each zone maps to a different cluster. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones/zone-virtualization https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/regions-zones/zone-vir...

singron 3y ago
Google puts multiple clusters in a single building.
- medler 3y ago
  Seems you’re right. They say each zone is a separate failure domain but you kind of have to trust their word on that.
- navaati 3y ago
  Flashback to that Clichy datacenter fire near Paris...
yencabulator 3y ago
Zones are about correlated power and networking failures. Regions are about disasters. If you want multiple regions, Google can of course do that too: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/locations#considerations https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/locations#consideratio...