On the other hand i can’t remember when there was a serious outage on GCP, unlike AWS/Azure who seem to go down catastrophically a couple of times per year.

How is blackhole-ing a customer not considered an outage?

GCP has had outages. From a quick search it looks like they had a global outage less than a year ago:

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/ow5i3PPK96RduMcb1S...

I've been in AWS for almost twenty years at this point. It's been a long time since I've seen a global outage of the data plane on anything. The control plane, especially the US-east-1 services? Yes - but if you're off of east-1, your outages are measured in missile strikes, not botched deployments.

Perhaps you don't notice GCP outages because so few companies rely on them?

GCP never goes down because they banned all their customers.

AWS goes down catastrophically but are back up in minutes/hours most of the time (as long as they aren't down because Iran blew up their data center). That's obviously REALLY bad for certain industries, but I suspect for the vast majority of their customers it's not a big deal. We've been able to isolate the damage almost every time just by having AZ failover in place and avoiding us-east-1 where we can.

Unfortunately, if everyone goes down people are understanding. If just _you_ go down, then its oddly less forgiveable.

IIRC the Paris datacenter flood took down a whole “region” and some data was permanently unrecoverable.

You can read the parent post, right?

I still remember the one where they nuked all the storage of I think an Australian insurance company I think, luckily the it department had done a multi cloud setup for backups

There was a pretty bad one last summer - their IAM system got a bad update and it broke almost all GCP services for an hour or so, since every authenticated API call reaches out to IAM.

It had lasting effects for us for a little over 3 hours.