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Google Cloud Is Down

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Re: Google Cloud Is Down

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post #6

That feeling when you open https://console.cloud.google.com and see that you don't have your Kubernetes clusters and CloudSQL databases, but CTA to create first.

Have services running in europe-west1, everything loads and working fine for me. looks like europe-west1 is not affected.

Re: Google Cloud Is Down

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Now is a good time to point out that the SLA of Google Cloud Storage only covers HTTP 500 errors: https://cloud.google.com/storage/sla. So if the servers are not responding at all then it's not covered by the SLA. I've brought this to their attention and they basically responded that their network is never down.

Re: Google Cloud Is Down

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post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To clarify something: this outage doesn’t appear to be global, but it is hitting us particularly hard in parts of the US. So for the folks with working VMs in Mumbai, you’re not crazy. But for everyone with sadness in us-central1, the team is on it.

It seems global to me. This is really strange compared to AWS. I don't remember an outage there (other than s3) impacting instances or networking globally.

I have an instance in us-west-1 (Oregon) which is up, but an instance in us-west-2 (Los Angeles) which is down. Not sure if that means Oregon is unaffected though.

Re: Google Cloud Is Down

#329
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

Digitalocean has the same issue: status pages are actually manually updated and no live data is fed into them.

Re: Google Cloud Is Down

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post #243
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.

I use both services heavily at work. The networking in GCP is terrible. We experience minor service degradation multiple times a month due to networking issues in GCP (elevated latency, errors talking to the DB, etc). We've even had cases where there was packet corruption at the bare metal layer, so we ended up storing a bunch of garbage data in our caches / databases. Also, the networking is less understandable on G…

> We've even had cases where there was packet corruption at the bare metal layer,

I'd love to know how this happens in the modern world. I've seen it myself only once (not GCP, but our own network with cisco equipment.)

Is something in the chain not checking the packet's CRC?

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