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Google Cloud Is Down

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Re: Google Cloud Is Down

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post #20

GCP status page is worthless as it's always happy and green when production systems are down and then they might acknowledge something an hour later

I think this might be a static page they are hosting on Akamai?

Doesn't look like it:

https://www.whoishostingthis.com/#search=status.cloud.google...

Re: Google Cloud Is Down

#223
post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You have my honest sympathy because of the difficulties you now suffer through, but it bears emphasizing: this is what you get when you replace what should be a physical product under your control with Internet-connected service running on third-party servers. IoT as seen on the consumer market is a Bad Idea.

It's a trade-off of risks. Leaving a key under the may could lead to a security breach.

Don't be ridiculous. Real alternatives would include P2P between your smart lock and your phone app or a locally hosted hub device which controls all home automation/IoT, instead of a cloud. If the Internet can still route a "unlock" message from your phone to your lock, why do you require a cloud for it to work?

Re: Google Cloud Is Down

#224
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…

I'm guessing this will be part of the next DiRT exercise :-) (DiRT being the disaster recovery exercises that Google runs internally to prepare for this sort of thing)

Re: Google Cloud Is Down

#226
post #85
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…

This happened to Amazon S3 as well once. The "X" image they use to indicate a service outage was served by... yup, S3, which was down obviously.

One of the projects I worked on was using data URIs for critical images, and I wouldn’t trust that particular team to babysit my goldfish.

Sounds like Google and Amazon are hiring way too many optimists. I kinda blame the war on QA for part of this, but damn that’s some Pollyanna bullshit.

Re: Google Cloud Is Down

#227
It seems crazy to me that Google Cloud can have this level of instability but I, on the other hand, can never remember google.com going down.

Why are they operating one with a different networking infrastructure from the other?

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