Ask HN: Is S3 down?

Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by debaserab2 on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @03:03PM (#13757317)

I'm not sure what you mean. If anything that link underscores my point. GCE has absolutely had it's own catastrophic errors. Remember last April when ALL instances in ALL regions went down?

https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/16007?post-...

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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by miken123 on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @06:06PM (#13759139)

At least Google has a post-mortem, at AWS everything would still show up green with some random note about 'increased error rates'.

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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by boulos on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @04:16PM (#13757927)

While I agree that was a horrific outage for us, there's a big difference between no external connectivity for a few minutes (note: internal IPs still worked fine, as did access to APIs through that mechanism) and "ALL instances in ALL regions went down".

Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (and wouldn't want to be an incident responder at AWS today...)

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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by eicnix on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @03:14PM (#13757418)

The GCP services are usually within their SLA target so I don't see the problem with the incidents. So you know what you buy and can take actions if you need a higher SLA for your application.

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Re:Ask HN: Is S3 down? by debaserab2 on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @03:26PM (#13757508)

> so I don't see the problem with the incidents

All instances going down in all regions is an order of magnitude worse than a single service going down in a single region. You're deluding yourself if you think GCE is any more reliable than any other reputable cloud hosting platform.

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