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Services like SES Inbound are only available in 2x US regions. AWS isn't great about making all services available in all regions :/

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We're on Azure and they are worse in every aspect, bad deployment of services, and status pages that are more about PR than engineering.

At this point, is there any cloud provider that doesn't have these problems? (GCP is a non-starter because a false-positive YouTube TOS violation get you locked out of GCP[1]).

[1]: https://9to5google.com/2021/02/26/stadia-port-of-terraria-ca...

Global auth is and has been a terrible idea.

If you can't figure out how to use a different Google account for YouTube from the GCP billing account, I don't know what to say. Google's in the wrong here, but spanner's good shit! (If you can afford it. and you actually need it. you probably don't.)

The problem isn't specifically getting locked out of GCP (though it is likely to happen for those out of the loop on what happened). It is that Google themselves can't figure out that a social media ban shouldn't affect your business continuity (and access to email or what-have-you).

It is an extremely fundamental level of incompetence at Google. One should "figure out" the viability of placing all of one's eggs in the basket of such an incompetent partner. They screwed the authentication issue up and, this is no slippery slope argument, that means they could be screwing other things up (such as being able to contact a human for support, which is what the Terraria developer also had issues with).

Don't worry there was a global GCP outage a few months ago

One of those still isn’t us-east-1 though and email isn’t latency-bound.

Except for OTP codes when doing 2fa in auth

100ms isn’t going to make a difference to email-based OTP.

Also, who’s using email-based OTP?

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