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Google Cloud Is Down

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Post by BillinghamJ »

Scoundreller wrote: post #300
ljm wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Always in Virginia, because US-east has always been cheaper.

And for those of us in GST/HST/VAT land, hosting in USA saves us some tax expenditures.

You know, normally you still have to pay that tax - just through a reverse charge process

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Post by mcintyre1994 »

w_s_l wrote: 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…

The thing that worries me most about Google Cloud and these billing stories is that I’m assuming if you chargeback or block them at your bank then they’ll ban all Google accounts of yours - and they’re obviously going to be able to make the link between an account made just for Google Cloud and my real account.

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Post by pmlnr »

disillusioned wrote: post #318
pmlnr wrote: post #213

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?!"

I live in a house with a Nest thermostat and Nest Secure and Nest x Yale door locks. The AC is on just fine, and the door unlocked just fine. (The door lock doesn't require an internet connection, unless you've enabled privacy mode for some reason.)

I thought there were versions that don't work offline; my bad if this is not the case.

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Post by nodesocket »

foobarbazetc wrote: post #287
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…

Seems to be the private network. The public network looks fine to us from all over the world?

Not on my end. Public access in us-west2 (Los Angeles) is down for me.

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Post by kerng »

w_s_l wrote: 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…

Google is well known for not caring about small shops, only if you are a multi million dollar customer with dedicated account manager you can expect reasonable support. That's been the case forever with them.

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Post by tlogan »

I also noticed that Google search stop indexing news articles.

So I searched for "gmail down" on bing and I got some results [1]. But searching on Google for "gmail down" does not return any results [2].

[1] https://www.bing.com/news/search?q=gmail+down&qs=n&form=QBNT

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=gmail+down&source=lnms&tbm=n...

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