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Re: GCP Outage

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Post by 9rx »

tfsh wrote: post #139
9rx wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The program that updates the status page is hosted on Google Cloud.

It's not. You might be joking, but that comment still isn't helpful. My understanding is this is part of Google's internal PSD offering (Public Status Board) which uses SCS (Static Content Service) behind GFE (Google Frontend) which is hosted on Borg, and deploys other large scale apps such as Search, Drive, YouTube, etc.

How could it not be helpful given that it gave you reason to provide more details that you wouldn't have otherwise shared? You may not have thought this through. There is nothing more helpful. Unless you think your own comment isn't helpful, but then...

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Post by Analemma_ »

a2128 wrote: post #468
0xy wrote: post #426

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Seems like a major wtf if Cloudflare is using GCP as a key dependency.

Some day Cloudflare will depend on GCP and GCP will depend on Cloudflare and AWS will rely on one of the two being online and Cloudflare will also depend on AWS and the internet will go down and no one will know how to restart it

Don’t worry, we’ll just ask Chat-GPT.

Re: GCP Outage

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Post by deepsun »

nijave wrote: post #480
deepsun wrote: post #428

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With highly distributed services there's always something failing, some small percentage.

Sure but you can still put a message up when it's some over some like errors are 50% higher than normal (maybe the SLO is 99.999% of requests are processed successfully)

Just note that aggregations like that might manifest as GCP didn't have any issues today actually.

E.g. it was mostly us-central1 region affected, and in there only some services (e.g. regular instances, and GKE kubernetes were not affected in any region). So if we ask "what the percentage of GCP is down", it might well be it's less than the threshold.

On the other hand, about a month ago, 2025-05-19 there was an 8-hour long incident with Spot VM instances affecting 5 regions, and which was way more important to our company, but it didn't make any headlines.

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Post by calvinmorrison »

hplk wrote: post #486
arccy wrote: post #474

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They're a company that has to run their own datacenters, you'd expect them to not fall over when a public cloud does.

I was really surprised. The dependence on another enterprise’s cloud services in-general I think is risky, but pretty much everyone does it these days, but I didn’t expect them to be.

well at some level you can contract deploy private instances of clouds as well.

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Post by dylan604 »

ProAm wrote: post #489
voytec wrote: post #388

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> outage of a 3rd party service that is a key dependency. Good to know that Cloudflare has services seemingly based on GCP with no redundancy.

Google is an advertising company not a tech company. Do not rely on them performing anything critical that doesn't depend on ad revenue.

What does that make Amazon?

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Post by tapoxi »

dylan604 wrote: post #498
ProAm wrote: post #489

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Google is an advertising company not a tech company. Do not rely on them performing anything critical that doesn't depend on ad revenue.

What does that make Amazon?

A cloud services company. AWS is much bigger than Amazon retail at this point.
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