reCaptcha and translate are also down. Even search is affected it is super slow.
Yeah had recaptcha issues too
Google Outage in Europe
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#12Docs was a bit flaky earlier on.
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#13And many people blame their internet provider as google outages are rare.
I don't think it's that so much as the fact that that half of the internet services that rely on Google along the line somewhere (but not visibly to the users) are down, at least for me. And yet the Google search page can be reached (again, speaking from my European perspective, sample size one). To make it even more confusing: these issues are limited to my WiFi. If I use my phone connection as a hotspot the problems disappear.
So from the perspective of a regular person it is very reasonable to conclude that it is their internet provider that is down.
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#14Is it me or are big provider outages getting more common these days?
As time passes, the more big cloud providers there are, and the more complex they individually get (more products). Assuming the chance of an outage is actually static. If there is one (highly reliable and trusted) provider with five products one year, and three providers with ten products the next year, the chance of you seeing an outage has gone way up because of surface area.
Except that Google services don't run within GCP, but apart from it (mostly on Borg I'd guess).
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#15Probably related to the Google Cloud "service disruption" that started earlier this morning: https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/1xkAB1KmLrh5g3v9ZE...
It was very frustrating to see DNS working perfectly fine (since DNS is always the problem) and the connections just timing out.
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#16I was also getting 500 error in GCP console
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#17Yep, we're hit by that right now. It's not a total outage, we're losing about 10-15% of our calls to bigquery from within cloudfunctions. What we have using a VPC connector is ok. Fortunately areas affected are ancillary (mainly monitoring, ironically), our service is still running.
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#18There were outages around the same time last year. Somebody in the HN thread commented back then that the employees evaluation and promotion window ends around december/eoy, thus more releases are made. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_services_outages
He he. It's kind of hilarious. Maybe they should stagger reviews to ensure high availability? :-D
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#19There were outages around the same time last year. Somebody in the HN thread commented back then that the employees evaluation and promotion window ends around december/eoy, thus more releases are made. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_services_outages
He he. It's kind of hilarious. Maybe they should stagger reviews to ensure high availability? :-D
Nothing wrong with it. People make errors, distributed systems aren't easy. More frequent changes - more likely a bug was introduced.
My post is just a speculation, let's wait for the actual technical details doc from Google.
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#20And many people blame their internet provider as google outages are rare.
I don't think it's that so much as the fact that that half of the internet services that rely on Google along the line somewhere (but not visibly to the users) are down, at least for me. And yet the Google search page can be reached (again, speaking from my European perspective, sample size one). To make it even more confusing: these issues are limited to my WiFi. If I use my phone connection as a hotspot the problem…
And I think no internet provider has such a good name where an outage on their part would be unheard of. Much more so than google.