Ask HN: GCP Outage?

Post by JohnMakin » Sat, Jul 19, 2025, 12:23 AM UTC

dilyevsky wrote: post #30

JohnMakin wrote: post #21

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I've maintained a large multi-cloud architecture in the past. The problem is they really hit you hard on egress costs. Of course the motivation is obvious, they want to keep you locked in to their vendor. I did like that it gave a stronger leverage in contract renewals, but that was about it. The IAC was much more complicated and required more people/areas of knowledge. So it's definitely a tradeoff. You are correct…

There are multiple companies that help you with that by running tunnels via Direct Interconnect (Direct Connect in AWS) so that you "only" pay 2c/G egressing data out of VPC via this tunnel

Post by gsliepen » Sat, Jul 19, 2025, 8:29 AM UTC

hadlock wrote: post #36

dijit wrote: post #33

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Nobody who talks to actual stakeholders can use this as a defence. B2B customers don’t care if the other sites are also down, your SLA is affected with them, and they will want compensation.

You need to phrase it as Internet Weather.