6 points
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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 1 of the Availability Zones went down and the service that allocates instances threw a 500 when it failed to get that AZ’s capacity instead of just allocating the instances to the other 2 AZs.
4 points
I get how it’s possible, but this is Google. Surely they have decades of experience at keeping a website up no matter what happens!
13 points
4 points
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