Ask HN: GCP Outage? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: GCP Outage?

#11

Post by dondraper36 » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 4:00 PM UTC

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/8cY8jdUpEGGbsSMSQk...

Seems to be some hardware problem at least in us-east1

Re: Ask HN: GCP Outage?

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Post by palcu » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 4:05 PM UTC

There is an external incident now.

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/8cY8jdUpEGGbsSMSQk...

Re: Ask HN: GCP Outage?

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Post by lebski88 » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 4:13 PM UTC

Our VPN restarted about an hour ago and caused a bit of excitement, on the whole it's been a lot less _interesting_ than the last one thankfully.

Re: Ask HN: GCP Outage?

#14

Post by dangoodmanUT » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 4:19 PM UTC

Reminder that multi cloud >>> multi region

Anyone who says otherwise is selling availability theater

Too many whole-cloud outages due to a bad config in the last 2 months (GCP x2, cloudflare x2)

Re: Ask HN: GCP Outage?

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Post by Ironlink » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 4:21 PM UTC

Our system in EU observed some slowness and a few 500 and 503 responses from `identitytoolkit.googleapis.com` over a period of about 10 minutes.

Re: Ask HN: GCP Outage?

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Post by jonathaneunice » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 4:26 PM UTC

dangoodmanUT wrote: post #14

Reminder that multi cloud >>> multi region Anyone who says otherwise is selling availability theater Too many whole-cloud outages due to a bad config in the last 2 months (GCP x2, cloudflare x2)

And also that effort(multi cloud) >>> effort(multi region)

Re: Ask HN: GCP Outage?

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Post by blitzar » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 4:38 PM UTC

Systems down, heading to the pub.

Re: Ask HN: GCP Outage?

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Post by 18172828286177 » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 4:39 PM UTC

dangoodmanUT wrote: post #14

Reminder that multi cloud >>> multi region Anyone who says otherwise is selling availability theater Too many whole-cloud outages due to a bad config in the last 2 months (GCP x2, cloudflare x2)

This isn’t a whole-cloud outage. It’s not even a whole-region outage.

Whole-cloud outages are pretty damn rare. The recent GCP issues are an exception to the general rule.

I’d posit that the complexity of a multi-cloud setup is generally going to reduce your service’s reliability more than relying on a single cloud does.

Re: Ask HN: GCP Outage?

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Post by dijit » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 4:41 PM UTC

Maybe centralising all our IT infrastructure wasn't a good idea after all.

Re: Ask HN: GCP Outage?

#20

Post by remram » Fri, Jul 18, 2025, 5:02 PM UTC

18172828286177 wrote: post #18

dangoodmanUT wrote: post #14

Reminder that multi cloud >>> multi region Anyone who says otherwise is selling availability theater Too many whole-cloud outages due to a bad config in the last 2 months (GCP x2, cloudflare x2)

This isn’t a whole-cloud outage. It’s not even a whole-region outage. Whole-cloud outages are pretty damn rare. The recent GCP issues are an exception to the general rule. I’d posit that the complexity of a multi-cloud setup is generally going to reduce your service’s reliability more than relying on a single cloud does.

Whole-zone outages are also rare...