I've been in AWS for almost twenty years at this point. It's been a long time since I've seen a global outage of the data plane on anything. The control plane, especially the US-east-1 services? Yes - but if you're off of east-1, your outages are measured in missile strikes, not botched deployments.

Perhaps you don't notice GCP outages because so few companies rely on them?

GCP never goes down because they banned all their customers.

GCP has had outages. From a quick search it looks like they had a global outage less than a year ago:

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1S...

AWS goes down catastrophically but are back up in minutes/hours most of the time (as long as they aren't down because Iran blew up their data center). That's obviously REALLY bad for certain industries, but I suspect for the vast majority of their customers it's not a big deal. We've been able to isolate the damage almost every time just by having AZ failover in place and avoiding us-east-1 where we can.

IIRC the Paris datacenter flood took down a whole “region” and some data was permanently unrecoverable.

>On the other hand i can’t remember when there was a serious outage on GCP

They had a really bad global outage a year ago. At least with AWS outages are contained to a single region.

Unfortunately, if everyone goes down people are understanding. If just _you_ go down, then its oddly less forgiveable.

How is blackhole-ing a customer not considered an outage?

There was a pretty bad one last summer - their IAM system got a bad update and it broke almost all GCP services for an hour or so, since every authenticated API call reaches out to IAM.

It had lasting effects for us for a little over 3 hours.

You can read the parent post, right?

I still remember the one where they nuked all the storage of I think an Australian insurance company I think, luckily the it department had done a multi cloud setup for backups