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> Finally, to underscore how seriously we are taking this event, we are offering GCE and VPN service credits to all impacted GCP applications equal to (respectively) 10% and 25% of their monthly charges for GCE and VPN.

These credits exceed what is promised by Google Cloud in their SLA's for Compute Engine and VPN service!

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... which is precisely (almost word-for-word) what the post-mortem goes on to say. Is there something specific you're trying to call attention to here?

Nop. Probably did too much copy-pasting :( Mearly wanted to highlight the point.

Only barely. They're down to 2.5 minutes of downtime left for the next 30 days if they want to keep the 99.95% level.

They do SLO by quarter.

Just to clarify, the criteria is using "monthly uptime percentage": https://cloud.google.com/compute/sla

Interesting. I guess quarterly is an internal target.

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