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by ransom1538 2779 days ago
“2) This issue was global in scope, affecting all of Google's regions. Therefore, in consideration of item 1 above, it was questionable/unpredictable whether or not a user could launch a node pool or even a simple node anywhere in GCP at all.”

Ok. So on aws we were* paying for putting systems across regions, but, honestly I don’t get the point. When an entire region is down what I have noticed is that all things are fucked globally on aws. Feel free to pay double - but it seems* if you are paying that much just pay for an additional cloud provider. Looks like it’s the same deal on GCP.
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human_error 2779 days ago
> When an entire region is down what I have noticed is that all things are fucked globally on aws.

Do you have an example on this?

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excalq 2779 days ago
On 17 October, there was a multi-AZ network failure at us-east-1. It only lasted 3m35s, but it was enough that our customers were calling about our site being down.
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ghusbands 2779 days ago
That's still just one region, unless you were also hosted outside us-east-1.
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ransom1538 2779 days ago
Just grabbed first article. Example: In this case capitalone went down. I don’t work at capitalone - but I imagine they had their data copied across every region 30 times.

https://www.geekwire.com/2018/widespread-outage-amazon-web-s...

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jefftk 2779 days ago
I think you're much too optimistic about capitalone. They probably had a single point of failure, possibly one they didn't realize they had.
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carlsborg 2779 days ago
CapitalOne is one of the few financial markets firms with open source cloud projects on github. I respect their tech org for that.
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