[macintux]

It's tough, though. The PR embarrassment of hosting your Google Cloud status page on AWS, say, would be substantial.

[dilyevsky]

I’m sure google can afford some colo space (probably would be cheaper too)

[dylan604]

Makes me think of a calculus word problem: As the things Google cannot afford approaches 0...

[macintux]

Sure, but what’s more likely to be reliable: GCP/AWS or a colo?

It’s also embarrassing (and can cause stress for your customers) when your status page is down.

[dilyevsky]

Imo for simple deployment colo with a major provider (equinix, coresite, etc) and redundant transit beats any cloud on reliability hands down

[jeffbee]

How do you know that there isn't a disaster plan under which Google routes requests for status.cloud.google.com to some other, non-Google host?

[dilyevsky]

I honestly have no idea, hope they do. My point is aws is not the only alternative (and not even the best one) for setting this up.

[closeparen]

A separate failure domain / uncorrelated failure can be more important than the absolute rate of failure.