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Re: GCP Outage

#401

Earlier quoted context omitted.

switch to auto mode and it should still work!

GPT is working in agent mode, which kind of confirms that claude is hosted on google and GPT probably on MSFT servers / self hosted.

If you want a stronger confirmation about Claude being hosted on GCP, this is about as authoritative as it gets: https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-partners-with-googl...

Re: GCP Outage

#403
Let's say a typical base service (network attached RAM or whatever) has 99.99% reliability. If you have a dependency on 100 of those, you're suddenly closer to 99% reliability. So you switch to higher-level dependencies, and only have 10 dependencies, for a 99.9% reliability. But! It turns out, those dependencies each have dependencies, so they're really already more like 99.9% at best, and you're back at 99% reliability.

"good enough" is, indeed, just good enough to make it not worthwhile to rip out all the upstreams and roll your own everything from scratch, because the cost of the occasional outages is much lower than the cost of reinventing every single wheel, nut, bolt, axle, bearing, and grease formulation.

Re: GCP Outage

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post #397

Any chance this is the root being that so many different services are effected? https://github.com/kubernetes/kops/issues/17433

I doubt gcloud would be affected by an aws-specific cni. Unless maybe enough AWS users have a GCP backup environment that they flipped on all at once, but it seems unlikely

good point. I took that as simply the example that they had in front of them but a generic issue.

Re: GCP Outage

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post #385

Everything appears to be down as of 18:43 UTC... https://downdetector.com/

Yeah. This service was presenting charts likely probed from inside GCP. I was on a call with a Google rep, someone pointed out that "AWS is also down" and I foolishly said something about "possible BGP attack" out of spite, before checking AWS availability myself. Shame on me.

Didn't have the feeling of a BGP issue, most services I was working with were reasonably quickly returning failures, as opposed to lingering death.

Re: GCP Outage

#410

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/ is showing outage, which cause google gcp outage, claude outage, firbase outage https://status.firebase.google.com/

How would Cloudflare's outage cause a GCP outage?

I'm sure it's not entirely impossible, but sounds backwards to me. Sure - a lot of the internet relies on Cloudflare, but I'd be very surprised if GCP had a direct dependency on Cloudflare, for a lot of reasons. Maybe I misunderstood your comment?

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