[orenbarzilai]

AWS asks you to design your architecture for failure and work across multiple availability zones. Its complicated and expensive but you can avoid that. With google from the other end you can't. and that's the price you pay when you choose PaaS over IaaS

[tapirl]

Google Compute Engine is also an IaaS. You can also design your architecture for failure and work across multiple availability zones by using GCE. GCE is not GAE.

[plnk22]

GCE had a multi region outage so multi zone within a region wouldn't have helped in this case.

[ngrilly]

I agree. This is the reason why this outage is more serious than others.

[orenbarzilai]

My mistake, mixed GCE with GAE