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Google Cloud Is Down

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Re: Google Cloud Is Down

#141

Looks like only GCE is down according to the status page now. I'm able to access my console for instances and GKE clusters.

They initially opened an incident against GCE (https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/19003) then opened one against Networking (https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/19...).

The networking incident looks like the one to follow for updates now.

Re: Google Cloud Is Down

#142
Right now this is at the 'good at least it's not mine to fix or worry about' kind of like 'and the reason I choose IBM' [1]. I can just sit back and wait for gmail to work correctly. Now at the point it starts to last what I would consider a long time well then I will have things to worry about.

One thing with gmail though. When it's down it's similar to a snow storm if you only do business in a city. Everyone is impacted and everyone understands a missed deadline is unavoidable.

[1] For those not old enough to know what I mean read this: https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/personalc...

Re: Google Cloud Is Down

#143
post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And the illusion of superiority over non cloud offerings.

How come?

Solutions based on third-party butts have essentially two modes: the usual, where everything is smooth, and the bad one, where nothing works and you're shit out of luck - you can't get to your data anymore, because it's in my butt, accessible only through that butt, and arguably not even your data.

With on-prem solutions, you can at least access the physical servers and get your data out to carry on with your day while the infrastructure gets fixed.

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#147
Was certainly an interesting alert when my Cloud Functions started reporting downtime. Among the many things that dip in and out on what seems like a monthly basis, I’ve not seen them just drop out in quite a while. Hopefully they get things sorted out. I can’t really imagine what it looks like internally when this level of outage is going on, but I want to think everyone is fairly collected

Re: Google Cloud Is Down

#148
post #83

You know this reminds me of a bad taste that Google Sales team left when I asked for some of my billing that I was unaware of running after following a quickstart guide. AWS refunded me in the first reply on the same day! GCP sales rep just copy pasted a link to a self support survey that essentially told me, after a series of YES or NO questions that they can't refund me. So why not just tell your customers like it…

What was the quickstart guide?
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