Google fingers wetware, yet again, as the reason for a cloudy outage

“People,” sang Nick Cave, “They ain't no good.” And Google's learning that applies double to clouds, after again finding human intervention caused an outage. The problem, titled Quotas were reset to default values for some Customers lasted most of Tuesday's business hours on the US West Coast and meant “7.8% of Google Compute …

[Anonymous Coward]

Shameless Plug.

And bad news that the mistake slipped through testing.

if only they had attended el Reg's DevOps seminar.

[TeeCee]

Re: Shameless Plug.

We all know how that happened.

"The deployment deadline is two weeks away. We've already advertised the new services, so it must happen on time!"

"But we advised of a three week slippage over four months ago. We still have five weeks of integration, operational and beta testing to do."

"I don't give a fuck. Sales and Marketing have had this date planned for a year now. Make it happen or you're fired."

Aaaaaannnnnddddddd there goes the testing.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Shameless Plug.

I'm sure both users were really put out by this.....

[Oengus]

To err

To err is Human. To foul things up requires a computer.

To really stuff things up let a human use (or manage) a computer.

This is why we do testing. Oh, wait! testing something cloud based...

[Anonymous Coward]

Beat me to it.