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Re: GCP Outage

#175

It's completely nuts that Firebase has this: https://status.firebase.google.com/incidents/ZcF1YDUvpdixZ2e... "Firebase Data Connect unavailable due to a known Google Cloud global outage" While the Google Cloud status page https://status.cloud.google.com/ says "No major incidents" and everything is green. So Google Cloud know there is an outage but just deem it not major enough to show it. Edit to add: within 10 minut…

Maybe the outage is preventing them from updating that specific page? Hmm

EDIT: Looks like it has been updated now (6:49 PM UTC)

Re: GCP Outage

#176

The status page is green, but there are outages reported: https://downdetector.com/status/google-cloud/

Why even have a status page? Someone reported that their org of >100,000 users can't use Google Meet. If corps aren't going to update their status page, might as well just not have one. https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/ https://status.cloud.google.com/index.html Edit: The GCP status page got updated <1 minute after I posted this, showing affected services are Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Memorystore, Cloud She…

There's no situation where the corporation controls the status page where you can trust the status page to have accurate information. None. The incentives will never be aligned in this regard. It's just too tempting and easy for the corp to control the narrative when they maintain their own status page.

The only accurate status pages are provided by third party service checkers.

Re: GCP Outage

#178
post #140

It looks like that it is a central service @ Google called Chemist that is down. "Chemist checks the project status, activation status, abuse status, billing status, service status, location restrictions, VPC Service Controls, SuperQuota, and other policies." -> This would totally explain the error messages "visibility check (of the API) failed" and "cannot load policy" and the wide amount of services affected. cf. h…

I use Expo intermediation for notifications, but with this Google context, I imagine that FCM is also suffering, is that possible?

Re: GCP Outage

#179

It's completely nuts that Firebase has this: https://status.firebase.google.com/incidents/ZcF1YDUvpdixZ2e... "Firebase Data Connect unavailable due to a known Google Cloud global outage" While the Google Cloud status page https://status.cloud.google.com/ says "No major incidents" and everything is green. So Google Cloud know there is an outage but just deem it not major enough to show it. Edit to add: within 10 minut…

GCP just updated their status

Re: GCP Outage

#180
Cloudflare is down too. From https://www.cloudflarestatus.com:

Update - We are seeing a number of services suffer intermittent failures. We are continuing to investigate this and we will update this list as we assess the impact on a per-service level.

Impacted services: Access WARP Durable Objects (SQLite backed Durable Objects only) Workers KV Realtime Workers AI Stream Parts of the Cloudflare dashboard Jun 12, 2025 - 18:48 UTC

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44261064

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