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Post by foota »

artooro wrote: post #192

What's crazy is that RCS messaging is down as a result of this outage. It shows how poorly the technology or infrastructure was designed.

Isn't RCS basically just instant messaging? I don't know why it's surprising that it would be down.

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Post by baggy_trough »

dijit wrote: post #285
camdenreslink wrote: post #278

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The status page is essentially an admission of guilt. It can require approval from the legal department and a high level official from the company to approve updating it and the verbiage used on the status page.

then it’s fucking useless. Let’s crowd source our own

You're in the crowdsourced version right now.

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Post by aylmao »

carter-0 wrote: post #132
thanhhaimai wrote: post #2

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

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AWS is fine: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

My guess is whatever system downdetector uses to "detect downtime" relies on either GCP or Cloudflare (also having issues at the moment: https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/)

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Post by iamdelirium »

leoh wrote: post #307

If Google Chat is down per https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/ , the ability for Google engineers to communicate among themselves impaired, despite SREs having IRC as a backup.

Google Chat wasn't down for me throughout the entire incident.

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Post by rectang »

Haha, I don't ordinarily spend a lot of time in the Google Cloud Console but just now I was debugging a squirrely OAuth issue with reCAPTCHA failing to refresh several days running. I'm getting this weird page error, and I think, "Is this an issue with my organization? [futz futz futz] Hey wait is GCP actually down?" And it turns out to be the top discussion on HN. XD

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Post by iFred »

cyberpunk wrote: post #257
whatevertrevor wrote: post #233

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't cloudflare have its own infrastructure, it's wild to me that both these things are down presumably together with this size of a blast radius.

You'd think so wouldn't you? DownDetector also reports azure and oracle cloud, I can't see then also being dependant on GCP... I guess down detector isn't a full source of truth though. https://ocistatus.oraclecloud.com/#/ https://azure.status.microsoft/en-gb/status Both green

Down Detector can have a poor signal to noise ratio given from what I am assuming is users submitting "this is broken" for any particular app. Probably compounded by many hearing of a GCP issue, checking their own cloud service, and reporting the problem at the same time.
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