[theptip]

I’m sure someone has been taken down in this way on GCP, and if you’re on AWS you could get taken down like this too (see Parler). It’s really hard to quantify the risk here but my priors are that if you are a normal business that is not doing anything illegal then the risk is vanishingly small, and that GCP is not worse than AWS.

I think that building on a cloud platform (or other SaaS like an Oracle DB) and getting your license cost increased is a much bigger business risk.

Either way building your system to be easy to lift and shift to another provider (or on prem) has merit to hedge against these risks, but it also slows you down.

[antonvs]

> Either way building your system to be easy to lift and shift to another provider (or on prem) has merit to hedge against these risks, but it also slows you down.

Not necessarily. Kubernetes is a great way to hedge against that. You can write fully cloud-native autoscaling apps that have minimal dependencies on the hosting environment.

[theptip]

I agree, and chose k8s for this reason, but it’s definitely more work to run your own message queue vs. using SQS etc, so I don’t think it solves all of the friction here.