Cloudyn's customer base is predominantly AWS users, but these customers are showing deep interest in Google Cloud Engine. The company has added GCE analytics support, including porting and comparisons with AWS.
So how does a widely-used app like Gmail go down, as it has today? There have been a number of Gmail outages over the years, usually involving software updates or networking issues.
Google purchased the total output of power from 4 more wind farms to power its Hamina, Finland data center. The Hamina facility is one of the most efficient data centers in the world, and it will run on 100 percent renewable energy beginning 2015.