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As a customer of google cloud, this is wholly unsurprising. They have proven themselves time and again to be incompetent but I can’t convince my boss to let us build a data center.
Is AWS not an option for reasons other than money?
Anyone smart at AWS has been laid off or quit. The outages at AWS are going to get longer and more frequent.
It is, but it’s the same situation really.
Never trust cloud. Unless you own the cloud, you don't have any control.
Someone definitely got fired for that. This is why you don't put all of your eggs in one basket.