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Google outage – resolved

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Post by throwawaylolx »

sammorrowdrums wrote: post #344
faeyanpiraat wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN is my goto status page when these things happen, never failed to provide up-to-date reliable information.

I, and probably many others here are like a status page for friends and family too... I had my wife thinking that the internet was broken, and tried tethering to phone and things and still didn't work, then showed me and I saw the status code errors and was like "it's actually parts of Google that are down". I love (and am deeply scared by) the dependence of Google and the confusion of it with the entire internet.

It gets even worse: https://twitter.com/joemfbrown/status/1338452107419148290

>I’m sitting here in the dark in my toddler’s room because the light is controlled by @Google Home. Rethinking... a lot right now.

Some people are compiling more relevant events: https://twitter.com/internetofshit

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Post by mozinator »

lalwanivikas wrote: post #368
mozinator wrote: post #322

edit: added details edit: redacted my phone number edit: big mistake to add phone number edit: I think illic is right, probably not me edit: removed details

What exactly did you do that makes you so confident?

Exactly after my setIamPolicy API request to Google Cloud was the exact moment everything went down.

Re: Google outage – resolved

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Post by buremba »

Mistri wrote: post #182

It's super interesting that all Google services that I've tried are down _except_ for Google Search. What would isolate Search from the rest of Google's products such that it wouldn't be affected by a mass outage like this?

Google Search Images doesn't work either: https://www.google.com/search?q=random&tbm=isch&source=lnms

Re: Google outage – resolved

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Post by krono »

V-2 wrote: post #219
jacquesm wrote: post #196

So, anybody still feel like arguing that 'the cloud' is a viable back-up? Or is that a sore point right now? Just for a moment imagine: what if it never comes back again? Of course it will, - at least, it better - but what if it doesn't? And if it does, are you going to take countermeasures in case it happens again or is it just going to be 'back to normal' again?

Whatever data I have backed up in the cloud is synced across multiple devices that I use. Even if the cloud disappeared altogether, I still have it. The cloud allows me to keep an up to date copy across various devices.

Both Google Drive/Photos and OneDrive have an option to only keep recently used files on your local device, and even periodically suggest they automatically remove local copies of unused files to "free up space".

I highly suggest everyone disable this setting on their own, but also on their (perhaps less technical) friends' and relatives' devices. Otherwise, if anything happens to your account or - less likely - the storage provider or their hardware, your data could very well be gone forever. I can't believe anyone would want that.

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