This is exactly why people get nervous about platform risk
Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
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Re: Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
#22I think so. I'm a GCP user and I'm afraid of hosting workloads there now. I've heard too many nightmare stories, and I thought Google would be proper and thus not be infested with these kind of problems that cheaper providers are known for. Maybe AWS is the only player in town now? I don't know. Google doesn't instill confidence with these incidents, same with those cases of insurmountable bills caused by simple mist…
What about Azure?
Re: Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
#23We already know the explanation. It's fundamental to their business model and continued existence to automate everything, false positives be damned, and they don't care about all the people who roll snake eyes on a given day. Because everyone just stays and keeps using them.
Re: Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
#24I think so. I'm a GCP user and I'm afraid of hosting workloads there now. I've heard too many nightmare stories, and I thought Google would be proper and thus not be infested with these kind of problems that cheaper providers are known for. Maybe AWS is the only player in town now? I don't know. Google doesn't instill confidence with these incidents, same with those cases of insurmountable bills caused by simple mist…
What about Azure?
Do you care about uptime and security?
Re: Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
#25Post your ask in the discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48204770
Re: Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
#26Google really should publish a flow diagram for how they decide to turn off someone's business.
Re: Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
#27I think so. I'm a GCP user and I'm afraid of hosting workloads there now. I've heard too many nightmare stories, and I thought Google would be proper and thus not be infested with these kind of problems that cheaper providers are known for. Maybe AWS is the only player in town now? I don't know. Google doesn't instill confidence with these incidents, same with those cases of insurmountable bills caused by simple mist…
What about Azure?
Re: Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
What about Azure?
Do you care about uptime and security?
Re: Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
#29I think so. I'm a GCP user and I'm afraid of hosting workloads there now. I've heard too many nightmare stories, and I thought Google would be proper and thus not be infested with these kind of problems that cheaper providers are known for. Maybe AWS is the only player in town now? I don't know. Google doesn't instill confidence with these incidents, same with those cases of insurmountable bills caused by simple mist…
What about Azure?
Honestly the best counterattack Iran could make rn would be somehow convincing the Pentagon to move everything to Azure
Re: Ask HN: Shouldn't Google need to give a public statement about Railway incident?
#30This is actually scary. If Google can suspend a company like Railway without warning, what chance does a smaller startup have? The lack of any human escalation path at Google Cloud has been a known problem for years. You'd think enterprise customers paying real money would at least get a phone call before getting shut down
Then you should be scared about every single online account you use, since they all have this same capability of suspension of your account. That's inherent in any service policy.