Hi Linda,
I am using Google cloud. I can't talk about other cloud providers such as
MSFT Azure and Amazon AWS.

This page describes Google cloud resilience. Hope it provides useful info
for you:
https://cloud.google.com/architecture/disaster-recovery#resilience_and_availability_approach

Hesham

On Mon, Jan 30, 2023, 2:31 PM Linda Dunbar <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Opsawg,
>
>
>
> Section 3.2 of
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-rtgwg-net2cloud-problem-statement/
>  describes the Cloud Site failure impact to traffic to/from the
> enterprises’ workloads hosted in Cloud DCs.
>
>
>
> We really appreciate your feedback to this description.
>
>
>
> ----------
>
> *3.2. Site failures and Methods to Minimize Impacts*
>
>
>
> Site failures include, but not limited to, a site capacity degradation or
> entire site going down caused by a variety of reasons, such as fiber cut
> connecting to the site or among pods within the site, cooling failures,
> insufficient backup power, cyber threats attacks, too many changes outside
> of the maintenance window, etc. Fiber-cut is not uncommon within a Cloud
> site or between sites.
>
> As described in RFC7938, Cloud DC BGP might not have an IGP to route
> around link/node failures within the ASes.
>
> When those failure events happen, the Cloud DC GW which is visible to
> clients are running fine. Therefore, the Client GW can’t use BFD to detect
> the failures.
>
> When a site capacity degrades or goes dark, there are massive numbers of
> routes needing to be changed.
>
> The large number of routes switching over to another site can also cause
> overloading that triggers more failures.
>
> In addition, the routes (IP addresses) in a Cloud DC cannot be aggregated
> nicely, triggering very large number of BGP UPDATE messages when a failure
> occurs.
>
> It might be more effective to do mass reroute, similar to EVPN [RFC7432]
> defined mass withdraw mechanism to signal a large number of routes being
> changed to remote PE nodes as quickly as possible.
>
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>
> Thank you very much
>
> Linda Dunbar
>
>
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