Comment by mbreese

True, but how often do outages like this happen? And when outages do happen, does Cloudflare have any more exposure than Google? I mean, if Google can’t handle it, why should Cloudflare be expected to? It also looks like the Cloudflare services have been somewhat restored, so whatever dependency there is looks like it’s able to be somewhat decoupled.

So long as the outages are rare, I don’t think there is much downside for Cloudflare to be tied to Google cloud. And if they can avoid the cost of a full cloud buildout (with multiple data centers and zones, etc…), even better.