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Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension

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#101
post #15

"Finally, we are in planning to remove Google Cloud services from our data plane’s hot path, and keeping them only for secondary/failover." That's pretty clear. Google can no longer be trusted as a B2B service provider.

They have not explained WHY their account was suspended. That's the most important part, imo. Cloud Providers don't suspend entire accounts for no reason.

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Re: Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension

#102
post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meta is no different. I know a company that had their OAuth app on Meta rendered completely unusable just because one of their employees (a dev) had their personal Facebook account banned by Meta for no reason. They tried to escalate it multiple times but got nowhere, lol. Meta is even worse because accounts need to be 'personal'; if you have a Business Manager, the users added to it are all tied to their personal Me…

Yeah, people loose their business because a kid is logged in on their iPad, gets their google account suspended, and google knows it's the same household as the parent, and everything gets shut down

Everyone needs a defensible root of trust, this goes all the way down to the registrar you use for your domain.

Re: Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension

#105
post #33

The interesting and yet-to-be-explained part is why google flagged the account? Put all the timestamps you want in the post mortem about what you observed, but you haven't addressed the root cause. The "this doesn't make sense" part of the story likely has a real explanation that nobody wants to reveal yet.

This exact thing happened to me when I ran https://www.fatherly.com/ circa 2017. Google just shut down our account without notice. We were spending like $10k/month. It also locked us out of our premium support account, so we couldn't even get anyone there to notice that they'd locked us out.

After about 8 hours, a random Google support tech said it was because we were mining bitcoin, which was laughably untrue. We had CPU usage graphs and logs for the whole time and there was no spike. At around 12 hours, they turned it back on, said it was "misconfiguration of our abuse detection" and gave us like $100 in credit.

Absurd. Say what you will about AWS, they would never do that to a customer without a rep reaching out to you first. I have not trusted GCP since.

Re: Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension

#107

This should be a warning to anyone running GCP. They suspend accounts left right and centre without even thinking about what they're doing. It seems like they use Gemini 3.1 Pro to run their production decisions. TK has a history of absolutely destroying the culture of the place like in OCI and has done something similar in GCP from what I've heard. GCP and Google are completely different entities with how they work.…

This feels like google applying the same anti-spam mindset everywhere: detect risk, ban first, ask questions later.

Re: Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension

#108
post #15

"Finally, we are in planning to remove Google Cloud services from our data plane’s hot path, and keeping them only for secondary/failover." That's pretty clear. Google can no longer be trusted as a B2B service provider.

Hasn't every cloud provider had issues? Is the enshitification of servces really isolated to Google, or are we all doomed.

Re: Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension

#109
post #70
post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meta is no different. I know a company that had their OAuth app on Meta rendered completely unusable just because one of their employees (a dev) had their personal Facebook account banned by Meta for no reason. They tried to escalate it multiple times but got nowhere, lol. Meta is even worse because accounts need to be 'personal'; if you have a Business Manager, the users added to it are all tied to their personal Me…

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The is in context of B2B, which meta has a huge ecosystem and often rips away a companies revenue for hidden reasons

Re: Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension

#110
post #70
post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meta is no different. I know a company that had their OAuth app on Meta rendered completely unusable just because one of their employees (a dev) had their personal Facebook account banned by Meta for no reason. They tried to escalate it multiple times but got nowhere, lol. Meta is even worse because accounts need to be 'personal'; if you have a Business Manager, the users added to it are all tied to their personal Me…

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They're a popular SSO provider.
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