[jon_wu]

We started using Google Cloud Storage when it first came out so that user uploads would be closer to them (in theory) due to GCS' distributed design. They seem to have periods of 15-90 minutes every few months where they start timing out or giving us huge errors and often times we don't even hear about it either. They don't have a status page any only announce via email list - usually way after we've been scrambling.

Anybody else have a bad experience with Google Cloud Storage? I'm wondering if we're better off going with S3. Most users on my site are uploading photos, so when that dies, everything is down.

[dmytton]

The Google Cloud status page is at https://status.cloud.google.com/

[jpatokal]

And there's a history page too, listing two outages for Cloud Storage:

https://status.cloud.google.com/summary