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The small bare metal hosting company I use for some projects hardly goes down, and when there is an issue, I can actually get a human being on the phone in 2 minutes. Plus, a bare metal server with tons of RAM costs less than a small VM on the big cloud providers.
> a bare metal server with tons of RAM costs less than a small VM on the big cloud providers Who are you getting this steal of a deal from?
Does anyone know if this is a regional or global outage? I can see my GKE clusters in one region but not in another, so I am guessing it's the former. Looks like we'll need a cluster in each region going forward...
To help others: which two regions?
us-east4 is down
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I see a lot of Nest complaints, isn't there any security issue if Nest goes down?
I see people complain about Nest and the only thing I can think of is "what on earth where you thinking to have a door or thermostat that doesn't function without internet?!"
Prediction: the final postmortem will say "someone pushed a bad config", just like most of the previous postmortems (and most of the internal postmortems as well, for Borg-based services). This is the cause of most other outages in other cloud providers as well. A really hard to solve problem.
Multiple regions seem to be affected though. Wouldn't it make more sense to start out config pushes with a single region before expanding it to avoid these types of wide outages?
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…
And Thunderbird suddenly kept throwing prompts for my Gmail passwords, even after I sign back in. I hope it's related.
Nice overview : https://downdetector.com/
Instagram is on GCloud? Facebook has a heavy investment in their own DCs, I thought they would have transitioned to them by now.
No idea if this is what instagram does or not, just in general. Drives are hot and need lots of power and it’s expensive to out-S3 S3.
There goes 3 nines for June and for Q2. I guess everyone gets a 10% discount for the month? https://cloud.google.com/compute/sla