Google Compute Engine Is Down

Re:Google Compute Engine Is Down by ngrilly on Thursday February 19, 2015 @04:28AM (#9073174)

AWS had its own share of massive outage. I had a look at AWS and GCE incidents history and it looks the frequency and magnitude of incidents is quite similar. Do you have any factual information that contradicts this?

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Re:Google Compute Engine Is Down by plnk22 on Thursday February 19, 2015 @07:25AM (#9073670)

Perhaps the fact that the GCE outage affected multiple regions around the world. EC2 outages were all localized to a single region (and in most cases limited to a single AZ within that region).

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Re:Google Compute Engine Is Down by orenbarzilai on Thursday February 19, 2015 @08:10AM (#9073796)

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

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Re:Google Compute Engine Is Down by tapirl on Thursday February 19, 2015 @08:53AM (#9073930)

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.

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Re:Google Compute Engine Is Down by plnk22 on Thursday February 19, 2015 @09:10AM (#9074022)

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

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Re:Google Compute Engine Is Down by ngrilly on Friday February 27, 2015 @11:23AM (#9119644)

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

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Re:Google Compute Engine Is Down by orenbarzilai on Thursday February 19, 2015 @09:25AM (#9074090)

My mistake, mixed GCE with GAE

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