[medler]

> gcp should be designed in a way where the term “global outage” isn’t a word in their vocabulary.

As I understand it, GCP is already designed to make global outages impossible. Obviously this outage shows that they messed up somehow and some global point of failure still remains. Looking forward to the post-mortem.

[dilyevsky]

They had many many global outages through the years so that’s evidently not true. GCLB, iam, gcs and probably more Im missing just of the top of my head. Then there’s constant stream of regional networking borks where your latency is suddenly 5x which are not “global” but affect multiple regions

[throitallaway]

Anecdata, but in my experience Google Cloud has been MUCH more solid than my time spent on AWS.

[AlecSchueler]

While a fair point it's in no way a counter argument to what the person above was saying. Having fewer outages is not the same as having no global outages.

[dilyevsky]

Historically that has not been my experience at all tho tbf gcp has cleaned up their act substantially in the past 1-2 years

[medler]

They had lots of global outages in past years, but in recent years they have become increasingly rare, presumably because of a move away from global points of failure