Re:Google Cloud: Major packet loss between multiple regions ...
by nknealk on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @11:54AM
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They actually break it out now in their financial reporting. It’s a loss of 931 million for the most recent quarter on revenues of 5.8 billion. Likely most of the loss stems from R&D to develop the product offering.
Re:Google Cloud: Major packet loss between multiple regions ...
by oneepic on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @11:53AM
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IMO those odds are literally zero. Do you think AWS or Azure would get canned because of a single outage? There are lots of customers on GCP, and Google also appears to have a pretty big buy-in already -- just look at all the regions they have available in GCP.
Re:Google Cloud: Major packet loss between multiple regions ...
by asjkaehauisa on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @12:21PM
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They won't. GCP is a investment. Building DC/backbone infrastructure is a lot harder than x application. Still they need computing power to own products. Maybe in the paper they're losing money but in reality they're securing position in the market
Re:Google Cloud: Major packet loss between multiple regions ...
by toast0 on Tuesday June 07, 2022 @12:35PM
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A packet loss incident due to cut fiber that lasted just over three hours according to the status page is not really that big of a deal. Fiber cuts happen, and are the only reliable method to determine if your redundant fibers are in the same bundle. As a non-customer, their status updates seem ok, one hour to open the incident isn't great, and transparency is near zero, but at least they provided regular updates once it was open.
Nobody pays retail for GCP anyways. Always wondered how much they were losing on it.