They only have big outages. The VMs are incredibly reliable other than the big incidents. And, as I am often reminded by my product owners, people don't mind big outages as much as much as small random failures. If the whole thing is down, ok, fine, I'll go home. If it fails 0.1% all the time, my life is suffering. And in GCP, you start a VM and it just stays up. We've killed them from inside with memory leaks and filling the disk etc., but I haven't seen GCP kill them (50K VMs for couple years).

>So, basically Google created the most unreliable cloud system in the world

I'm pretty sure that title goes to Azure

You people probably haven't used IBM Cloud (or Bluemix, as it used to be). We inherited one application there, and boy was life stressful. There were already plans to move elsewhere, and then one day our managed production database was down. Took me something like ten hours to build a new production system elsewhere from backups, but it took longer for the engineers to fix the database.