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I don't quite know what you mean. Do you really expect Railway to use a multi-cloud architecture to host all of their client's projects? I suspect that would le

I don't quite know what you mean. Do you really expect Railway to use a multi-cloud architecture to host all of their client's projects? I suspect that would lead to a lower availability, all things considered.

impulser_ 5mo ago
They literally own their own data centers. That's whats surprising about this. They are lying to their customers when they say they operate their own data center because obviously they don't if everyone's apps are down with GCP blocking their account.
- ryanisnan 5mo ago
  Oh, I see what you mean. Eh, it's possibly the same reason that AWS essentially goes down when us-east-1 goes down.
- brookst 5mo ago
  Is it not possible that they own their own data center and have an unfortunate Google dependency? Obviously a fiasco but I’m not prepared to call them liars when it could be an honest mistake.
  - Terr_ 5mo ago
    I imagine there's also an important difference between: 1. We depend on X but could gracefully migrate to an alternate in a week if we really needed to. 2. All data is mirrored instantly so that we can do seamless fail-over in case X has its own outage.
  - impulser_ 5mo ago
    Then don't say your not a "Cloud on top of a cloud" provider. They even made fun of cloud providers being down when AWS was down.
eoswald 5mo ago
Well, in the same token, is it smart to base your ENTIRE architecture on a single cloud architecture? Isn't that why some of us build in fallbacks for AWS-hosted services? I mean, their enitre platform, both public and private facing, is running on the same thing. One error, one problem, takes out the entire service.
- irjustin 5mo ago
  Taking this at face value, this doesn't happen to AWS clients - at least I don't read about it here. AWS may have data centers[0] go[1] down[2], but that's within expected bounds of standard ops. [0] https://hooks.slack.com/services/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 https://hooks.slack.com/services/TJ7HQS7FC/B0B5S7UTBJ4/PUHIC... [1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/21/what-caused-amazons-aws-outage-and-why-did-so-many-major-apps-go-offline https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/21/what-caused-amazon... [2] https://netflixtechblog.com/lessons-netflix-learned-from-the-aws-outage-deefe5fd0c04?gi=029736f90d47 https://netflixtechblog.com/lessons-netflix-learned-from-the...
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impulser_ 5mo ago

They literally own their own data centers. That's whats surprising about this. They are lying to their customers when they say they operate their own data center because obviously they don't if everyone's apps are down with GCP blocking their account.

ryanisnan 5mo ago
Oh, I see what you mean. Eh, it's possibly the same reason that AWS essentially goes down when us-east-1 goes down.
brookst 5mo ago
Is it not possible that they own their own data center and have an unfortunate Google dependency? Obviously a fiasco but I’m not prepared to call them liars when it could be an honest mistake.
- Terr_ 5mo ago
  I imagine there's also an important difference between: 1. We depend on X but could gracefully migrate to an alternate in a week if we really needed to. 2. All data is mirrored instantly so that we can do seamless fail-over in case X has its own outage.
- impulser_ 5mo ago
  Then don't say your not a "Cloud on top of a cloud" provider. They even made fun of cloud providers being down when AWS was down.

eoswald 5mo ago

Well, in the same token, is it smart to base your ENTIRE architecture on a single cloud architecture? Isn't that why some of us build in fallbacks for AWS-hosted services? I mean, their enitre platform, both public and private facing, is running on the same thing. One error, one problem, takes out the entire service.

irjustin 5mo ago
Taking this at face value, this doesn't happen to AWS clients - at least I don't read about it here. AWS may have data centers[0] go[1] down[2], but that's within expected bounds of standard ops. [0] https://hooks.slack.com/services/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 https://hooks.slack.com/services/TJ7HQS7FC/B0B5S7UTBJ4/PUHIC... [1] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/21/what-caused-amazons-aws-outage-and-why-did-so-many-major-apps-go-offline https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/21/what-caused-amazon... [2] https://netflixtechblog.com/lessons-netflix-learned-from-the-aws-outage-deefe5fd0c04?gi=029736f90d47 https://netflixtechblog.com/lessons-netflix-learned-from-the...

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