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Re: Google Cloud Is Down

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Post by WaxProlix »

votepaunchy wrote: post #49
tubaguy50035 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Obviously we don't know what the extent of the issue is yet, but afaik there has never been an AWS incident that has affected multiple regions where an application had been designed to use them (like using region specific S3 endpoints). GCP and Azure have had issues in multiple regions that would have affected applications designed for multi-region.

> like using region specific S3 endpoints AWS had the S3 incident affecting all of us-east-1: “Other AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region that rely on S3 for storage, including the S3 console, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) new instance launches, Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) volumes (when data was needed from a S3 snapshot), and AWS Lambda were also impacted while the S3 APIs were unavailable.” https://aws.am…

There was a massive push after that to have everything regionalized. It's not 100% but it's super close at this point.

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Post by boulos »

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but disclaimer, I'm on vacation and so not much use to you!).

We're having what appears to be a serious networking outage. It's disrupting everything, including unfortunately the tooling we usually use to communicate across the company about outages.

There are backup plans, of course, but I wanted to at least come here to say: you're not crazy, nothing is lost (to those concerns downthread), but there is serious packet loss at the least. You'll have to wait for someone actually involved in the incident to say more.

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Post by timdorr »

pm90 wrote: post #30
klon wrote: post #27

Anyone using both AWS and GCP that can form an opinion on availability of both? As a GCP customer I am not very happy with theirs.

GCP is incredibly bad at communicating when there are problems with their systems. Just terrible. Its only when our apps start to break that we notice something is down, then look at the green dashboard which is even more infuriating.

AWS is often the same way. No one seems to be good at communicating outage details.

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Post by odiroot »

boulos wrote: post #63

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but disclaimer, I'm on vacation and so not much use to you!). We're having what appears to be a serious networking outage. It's disrupting everything, including unfortunately the tooling we usually use to communicate across the company about outages. There are backup plans, of course, but I wanted to at least come here to say: you're not crazy, nothing is lost (to those concerns do…

> including unfortunately the tooling we usually use to communicate across the company about outages.

There's some irony in that.

Re: Google Cloud Is Down

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Post by timdorr »

derekhh wrote: post #39

> We will provide more information by Sunday, 2019-06-02 12:45 US/Pacific. I'm not seeing anything at 12:47.

They are updating the root cause issue, which is networking, here: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/19...

Next update is in about 25 minutes.

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Post by brown9-2 »

chupasaurus wrote: post #66
brown9-2 wrote: post #59

When talking about GCE being down please also mention what regions you are talking about

In this case it's a luck if any are working correctly, a problem is global with some exceptions.

seems to be some comments here of some regions functioning ok, although perhaps it’s not 100% in all regions
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