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Comment by 587846 | Hacker News Reader

This is my first post on Hacker News as I primarily just browse. This situation kept me intrigued, wanting to know how it would unfold.

The Google Cloud situation and all these little happenings, including the proliferation of Gen AI into everything, make me long for the days when companies had their mainframes onsite, in closets or separate rooms, away from CDNs and cloud networks. It seems like a better idea to use these cloud networks as a separate off-site backup rather than for primary use.

I’d love to learn more about what will happen next in this saga. I’ve seen a post where a Cloudflare exec has posted here on HN before. They probably won’t say anything for legal reasons, but what repercussions can Cloudflare expect for this? Will they be, or can they be, sued for this downtime and the related expenses?

Did you ever notice the bit in EULAs that states that maximum liability to the vendor is capped at what you paid?

When big cloud goes down, you get a few days of credit. That's it.

When you do custom enterprise agreements you can get a lot more than that.

Unfortunately it's difficult and expensive to scale those traditional solutions to the modern world of billions of internet users located all over the world. It's still quite slow to access a server on the other side of the globe. It's less noticeable for an american user accessing an american company's resources.

Does it matter for 90% of business? I will say no, the vast majority of business is rather localized for very good reasons (as a starter, language/culture/legalese) so it is an unnecessary "feature" most of the time. The reality is that manager drank the Kool-Aid and wants to pretend that they are Google/Facebook or the likes but almost no one else has this kind of scale. Outside of tech behemoth nobody need that cloud bullshit.

> The Google Cloud situation

What's the Google Cloud situation?

They accidentally deleted a customer's account somewhat recently [1][2][3].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40313171

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40304666

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40466810

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