Google Cloud partially evaporates for hours amid power supply failure: Two US East Coast zones rattled

Google Cloud is having a wobbly Monday. Its Kubernetes platform and networking services were partially unavailable for hours today, and its virtual-machine hosting and in-memory storage systems had a limited outage. The web giant's Cloud Networking service fell over around 0800 PT (1500 UTC) today due to a power supply failure …

[W.S.Gosset]

Persistent Disk

Unfortunate name, in context.

[Jakester]

In each cloud a little rain must fall.

[Pascal Monett]

These "wobblies" are starting to pile up

It was IBM not long ago, now it's Google's Cloud and we can be sure that Azure is going to have its problems soon, as will AWS.

I wonder, has anyone done the math on the true uptime of these "services", and compared it to the good ol' local SAS uptime ?

Because being six hours without access to your data on Someone Else's Server is galling, especially when you bought into the fairy tale of Always On.

[W.S.Gosset]

Re: These "wobblies" are starting to pile up

"There is no such thing as the Cloud -- there's just someone else's machine."

[disgruntled yank]

Tweeted last November

"The cloud is just a computer in Reston with a bad power supply."

https://twitter.com/pragmaticandy/status/1168916144121634818?lang=en

(For those not familiar with the Washington, DC, area, Reston is a vaguely defined area in northern Virginia, close to Dulles airport, fifteen or twenty miles from Washington.)

[Anonymous Coward]

hang on!

What about microsoft?? They're the real bastards!

Embrace, extend, extinguish!

NEVER FORGET!!!!