Re:Google Cloud Is Down
by colinbartlett on Sunday June 02, 2019 @04:46PM
(#20078037)
I don't know about Steam, but I know Apple must use Google Cloud: https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
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Less than 1% of users are affected
Is there any reason to presume these statuses are correlated?
Apple's issue is
> Users may be experiencing slower than normal performance with this service.
Re:Google Cloud Is Down
by colinbartlett on Sunday June 02, 2019 @05:36PM
(#20078416)
I'm just assuming they are because it's been previously reported that Apple uses GCP (and also AWS).
https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/27/apple-now-relies-on-google...
Could be the only users who were affected were ones caught right in the failover between redundant clouds
Guess they don't eat their own dog food; no racks of proprietary Apple servers anywhere (unless they somehow run Darwin images in Google Cloud)
Re:Google Cloud Is Down
by londons_explore on Sunday June 02, 2019 @06:46PM
(#20078868)
Can't tell if you know the answer to your own question and just can't talk about it due to NDA...