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by bastawhiz 27 days ago
Absolutely not.

1. This isn't self service GCP, this is an enterprise contract. You don't build your medium sized business on a provider without one. Once you're a certain size, you don't get binding arbitration, you go to court in Santa Clara.

2. The TOS for GCP is very clear about an injunctive relief carve out:

> 14.11 Equitable Relief. Nothing in this Agreement will limit either party's ability to seek equitable relief.

3. This (according to the incident report) wasn't Railway being targeted specifically, it was a platform wide automated action. That's gross negligence, and the limitation of liability caps on Google's side of the agreement may not even be enforceable.