Google Cloud slips over in Europe amid water leak, fire Google Cloud stopped operating in Paris early on Wednesday morning local time due to "water intrusion," said the off-prem biz, which a day earlier reported profitability for the first time. Coincidentally, the Paris metro area experienced light rain today. Google declined to clarify whether the "water intrusion" was related to …
Not quite.
You pay for cloudy services in a selected zone or region, depending on the service
If you want more resilience, you pay for cloudy services in multiple zones and regions, at a multiple of the cost.
And if a service goes pop, you'll get a a few dollars back for that particular service. If everything else is up but not actually usable you'll still be paying full price for that.
Which I'm sure is great consolation if you've just lost hundreds of dollars in lost business, disruption etc.
Absolutely.
If you divide all the customers Google has by the number of customers that were actually impacted, it is a higher level of resiliency than you can possibly get out of a single tenant on prem data center.
That's how the cloud gets all those "9s" of availability while sometimes being as stable as an epileptic rollerblader in a discotheque.
Depends on the point of comparison. Compared to a professional colocation site, there isn't much difference. Compared to one of these onsite office racks hosted in old cleaning closed, I would claim you get more resilience.
Now one of the sales promises of the cloud is this global resilience, but honestly, most people don't end up doing it because 1. duplicating clusters across many locations is hard 2. It costs money.
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