On: Google Cloud Is Down

[colinbartlett]

I don't know about Steam, but I know Apple must use Google Cloud: https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/

[gowld → colinbartlett]

Less than 1% of users are affected

Is there any reason to presume these statuses are correlated?

Apple's issue is

> Users may be experiencing slower than normal performance with this service.

[colinbartlett → gowld]

I'm just assuming they are because it's been previously reported that Apple uses GCP (and also AWS).

https://techcrunch.com/2018/02/27/apple-now-relies-on-google...

[kalleboo → gowld]

Could be the only users who were affected were ones caught right in the failover between redundant clouds

[djsumdog → colinbartlett]

Guess they don't eat their own dog food; no racks of proprietary Apple servers anywhere (unless they somehow run Darwin images in Google Cloud)

[londons_explore → djsumdog]

Can't tell if you know the answer to your own question and just can't talk about it due to NDA...

[runlevel1 → djsumdog]

Apple runs Linux on the vast majority of the servers behind their cloud offerings.