Cloud: just someone else’s computer.
No Google Cloud for 12 hours due to power outage.
Submitted 2 weeks ago by Dot@feddit.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.techzine.eu/news/infrastructure/125631/no-google-cloud-for-12-hours-due-to-power-outage/
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praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Dave@lemmy.nz 2 weeks ago
But how does this happen? Surely Google has the ability to make highly available systems that are resistant to power going out at one of the three locations (as per the article).
jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
That doesn’t help if they have software that assumes it can reach all sites. I remember a few years ago AWS had a EC2 outage in eu-central-1 because of the Availability Zones went down and the service that allocates instances threw a 500 when it failed to get that AZs capacity instead of just allocating the instances to the other 2 AZs.
Orygin@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
From the incident report it seems the impact was limited to VMs in one DC in one region to be stopped, as the power was lost. And some service degradation in the region.
So not that much impact. Of course resources in this DC would stop working, but the rest of the region was still working properly. If you built your infra in this region in a resilient manner, your services should not have been impacted that much
TommySoda@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If only there was a way to keep files on a device you can keep in your home. Maybe even set up a closed system that you can access from everywhere without having to rely on Google’s servers 24/7.
Oh wait, there is. Nevermind.
As much as I’m talking shit, I get it. At the end of the day convenience is a hell of a drug.
BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 weeks ago
I was just thinking about this a little earlier.
People simply can’t be bothered to learn how systems work (any kind, technical, financial, political), then bitch when it doesn’t work the way they want.
I’m as guilty as anyone (especially finance). At least I try to not bitch about it too much, and work at keeping away from more complex stuff that I just don’t understand well enough.
Dayroom7485@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Highly misleading headline and article. The headline claims that all of GCP went down for 12h. The article claims that „services in Frankfurt“ were unavailable. Both is wrong.
In reality, the europe-west3-c zone experienced a 12h outage source.