On: Google Cloud Is Down

[sneak]

Just because you run your own ram and compute doesn’t mean you run your object store, too. Running drives is a commodity now, and crypto is cheap since aes-ni.

No idea if this is what instagram does or not, just in general. Drives are hot and need lots of power and it’s expensive to out-S3 S3.

[actuator → sneak]

Object store won't cause Instagram to go down though, no? Assets might fail to load.

[jjeaff → actuator]

What's left of instagram without the assets? And some of the assets required to fully load are probably in object store as well.