Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]

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Post by aarondf » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:23 AM UTC

Subsequent thread: Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48204770

Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]
status.railway.com

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Post by iloveplants » Tue, May 19, 2026, 11:17 PM UTC

seems like it's every day

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Post by throwaranay4933 » Tue, May 19, 2026, 11:19 PM UTC

This screenshot from Discord suggests the idea that the outage is caused by automated GCP account ban: https://x.com/acgfbr/status/2056866780866351323

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Post by faangguyindia » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:15 AM UTC

Google cloud also locked out a Korean Goverment Organization recently. The guy posted on GCP subreddit.

Google really need to improve their support team. It's strange such a big corp can't even afford to have proper support team.

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Post by mcontrerazCL » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:21 AM UTC

all my fkn postgres bd in railways! what do i do now?

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Post by gnabgib » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:24 AM UTC

Dupe - join the discussion started an hour ago instead of query string work (12 points, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200827

Re: Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]

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Post by aarondf » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:25 AM UTC

gnabgib wrote: post #6

Dupe - join the discussion started an hour ago instead of query string work (12 points, 4 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48200827

I added the qs because it defaulted to a story from 3 months ago.

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Post by ryanisnan » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:30 AM UTC

Yikes. I was wondering why my TLS certs were coming up as invalid.

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Post by King-Aaron » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:31 AM UTC

faangguyindia wrote: post #4

Google cloud also locked out a Korean Goverment Organization recently. The guy posted on GCP subreddit. Google really need to improve their support team. It's strange such a big corp can't even afford to have proper support team.

> It's strange such a big corp can't even afford to have proper support team

This seems to be by design.

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Post by eoswald » Wed, May 20, 2026, 12:39 AM UTC

Sorry, I have a hard time blaming Google for this, when Railway seems to be having increasing trouble keeping the platform stable. Something like this should NOT take down an ENTIRE service. There should be a backup when literally your business is about being the reliable backend. This just seems like poor planning to me.