Google’s Cloud outage could cast a pall over the IoT platform (GOOGL)

This is an excerpt from a story delivered exclusively to Business Insider Intelligence IoT Briefing subscribers. To receive the full story plus other insights each morning, click here. Google experienced an outage to its cloud computing network over the weekend that took down a range of its services, and those of its customers, according to TechCrunch. The issues that caused Google Cloud to go down for more than four hours — primarily network congestion — have since been resolved, and the service is up and running. But as the company continues to try to build up its presence in the IoT platform space on the back of its cloud service, it faces questions about its reliability that could be difficult to answer. Here’s what it means: Google’s been trying to sell its cloud business based on a few different points of emphasis, including reliability and uptime, which could very well be undercut by this high-profile outage. At a Google Cloud event in April, Google SVP of technical infrastructure Urs Hölzle highlighted the service’s reliability. He pointed out that Google Cloud had been down for only 208 minutes in 2018, compared to 312 minutes for Amazon Web Services (AWS) and 2,033 minutes for Microsoft’s Azure. But…

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