Re:GCE down in all regions
by draw_down on Monday April 11, 2016 @11:14PM
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I remember people speculating that Spotify most likely received a big discount for doing this. Guess you get what you pay for ;)
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Google provides 99.95% - https://cloud.google.com/appengine/sla
That is like 17 of such 15 minutes breaks per year, i.e. an allowance for one small (or a large fixed quickly) screwdup/month :)
99.95% is correct, but the Compute Engine SLA is actually here: https://cloud.google.com/compute/sla
Today's incident did not impact App Engine at all.
(Disclaimer: I work in Google Cloud Support.)
This allows unlimited small outages:
"Downtime Period" means, for an Application, a period of five consecutive minutes of Downtime. Intermittent Downtime for a period of less than five minutes will not be counted towards any Downtime Periods.