# Cloud provider postmortems: volume vs depth

DevFeed: [Cloud provider postmortems: volume vs depth](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/cloud-provider-postmortems-volume-vs-depth-34008.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://sridharrajarao.com/blog/cloud-postmortems-volume-vs-depth/>)

Author: Sridhar Rajarao

Published: 2026-08-05T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Sridhar Rajarao](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/sridhar-rajarao.md>)

Topics: [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/incident.md>), [SRE](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/sre.md>), [site-reliability-engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/site-reliability-engineering.md>), [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/engineering-culture.md>)

Tags: [2017](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2017.md>), [2025](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2025.md>), [2026](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/2026.md>), [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [azure](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/azure.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [dynamodb](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/dynamodb.md>), [engineering-culture](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering-culture.md>), [gcp](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gcp.md>), [incident](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident.md>), [incident-management](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/incident-management.md>), [postmortems](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postmortems.md>), [s3](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/s3.md>), [sre](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sre.md>), [transparency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/transparency.md>), [writeup](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/writeup.md>)

## AI overview

The article compares public postmortem practices among Google Cloud, Azure, and AWS. It argues that Google Cloud emphasizes high volume and speed, Azure emphasizes detailed transparency and customer accountability, and AWS publishes fewer writeups with greater depth and industry influence.

## Source excerpt

GCP publishes 100+ postmortems a year. AWS publishes almost none. Azure has become the transparency leader. What each posture reveals about engineering culture, and what SREs should steal from all three.