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

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.

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...

GCP never goes down because they banned all their customers.

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.

>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.

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

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

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

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

You can read the parent post, right?

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.