Sound Interesting, but its behind a paywall
Basically, Google Storage failed at least three times and they didn't have absolutely any way to get to their files. They are setting up manual access from multiple zones in AWS. They say it takes a lot of work but at least they can access the files from another zone of one fails. With Google it's all or nothing.
https://trulytimes.com/basecamps-cofounder-explains-why-it-d...