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Re: Google Cloud Is Down

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Yep, I can no longer see my Cloud SQL database - it's as if I've never created one at all. Really hoping this is just an issue displaying it and that Google hasn't punted my infrastructure and backups.

Praying isn't working. Now, I'll try sobbing :(

Systematic problem solving. I like it

Re: Google Cloud Is Down

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Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud (but disclaimer, I'm on vacation and so not much use to you!). We're having what appears to be a serious networking outage. It's disrupting everything, including unfortunately the tooling we usually use to communicate across the company about outages. There are backup plans, of course, but I wanted to at least come here to say: you're not crazy, nothing is lost (to those concerns do…

> including unfortunately the tooling we usually use to communicate across the company about outages. There's some irony in that.

Edit: and I agree!

I’m not in SRE so I don’t bother with all the backup modes (direct IRC channel, phone lines, “pagers” with backup numbers). I don’t think the networking SRE folks are as impacted in their direct communication, but they are (obviously) not able to get the word out as easily.

Still, it seems reasonable to me to use tooling for most outages that relies on “the network is fine overall”, to optimize for the common case.

Note: the status dashboard now correctly highlights (Edit: with a banner at the top) that multiple things are impacted because Networking. The Networking outage is the root cause.

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