Google Cloud Platform Adds Status Update Dashboard

March 2, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from StorageReview. Author: Lyle Smith.

Google has added status update functionality to their Status Dashboard of the Google Cloud Platform, acknowledging that even small interruptions can cause issues with users and businesses and lack of information pertaining to what’s going on only adds to the problem. This new transparency helps to improve their current tools and services, such as Google Cloud Monitoring, which monitors the health of a service.

As such, Google hopes that these augmented services will help to make disruptions more manageable by presenting users with the latest information on all issues as well as the ability to help find workarounds to these issues. Launched in May of 2010, the Google Cloud Platform is a paid cloud computing platform designed to offer businesses the same supporting infrastructure that Google uses for products such as Google Search…

It is also comprised of a line of products, each of which incorporates a web interface, a command-line tool, and a REST API. Some of these include Computer Engine, their Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS); App Engine, their Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS); and Cloud Datastore, which provides users with a managed, NoSQL, schemaless database for storing non-relational data…

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