Brace yourselves: Google Cloud preps server firmware upgrade to fix GPU glitches

Google Cloud has warned that some of its servers will soon have their firmware upgraded, an event that will likely disrupt workloads. An email sent to Google Compute Engine (GCE) customers on Tuesday, and an accompanying incident report, state: “We are experiencing an issue with Google Compute Engine beginning in 2020-08. A …

[Pascal Monett]

Why can't they just say downtime ?

“Affected customers will experience elevated frequency of Host Maintenance events ”

Saying the word downtime does not make you less professional.

This culture of avoiding saying specific words, or wrapping their meaning up in other words, is not good.

There isn't a single recipient of that email that did not immediately translate Host Maintenance = downtime, so just bloody well spell it out already.

[TeeCee]

...a physical graphics accelerator and SSD in the G-cloud...

Sort of missing the point of the whole "cloud" concept[1] completely then?

Still, it's not like anyone's going to let something like the whole bloody idea in the first place stand in the way of making a load of extra cash, no matter how much it may compromise the key benefits (scalability, portability and reliability).

HINT: What you have there is an outsourced data centre, not a cloud.

[David Hicklin]

HINT: What you have there is an outsourced data centre, not a cloud.

But that is what the cloud is surely ?