Huh. Railway dot com Has nothing to do with railways. I wish software people would get their own words.
I was also expecting a story about a physical railway being shut down.
Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]
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#342Did anyone discover any unexpected tools/wesbties use railway during this outage?
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#343Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed, I'm very curious as to how this could happen. But TheRegister did reach out to Google and they have not replied yet: https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/20/google-cloud...
> But TheRegister did reach out to Google and they have not replied yet That is exactly what GCP should do: not comment on a customer's issues. Even when it's due to abuse from a customer, which might even be the case.
Railway are alleging that this affected many GCP accounts, which would make at least a confirmation or denial of scope appropriate.
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#344>We have resolved this incident and a post mortem is available here. > https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-may-19-2026-gcp-a... >May 20, 07:57 UTC https://status.railway.com/incident/I23M92U0
It should be possible to sue Google for damages in such cases. This isnt a network outage or service failure which I would consider part of ToS.
What if the reason for their stuff being shut down was a payment issue like an expired credit card or maxed credit account? Unless I missed it skim reading their post I don’t see any information anywhere about their communications with Google.
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#345Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Perhaps you don't notice GCP outages because so few companies rely on them? GCP is the world's third largest cloud provider, and has around half of AWS' market share. Claiming no one uses it reads like Yogi Berra's "no one goes there anymore, it's too crowded".
Isn't that including things like google workspace and similar? Both Azure and GCP have sometimes included things that most people think of as unrelated SaaS (office 365, gsuite/workspace) to make themselves look bigger in the cloud sector.
> Isn't that including things like google workspace and similar?
AWS also includes Amazon WorkSpaces. Moreover, AWS includes all of Amazon's cloud infrastructure for things like Amazon music, Ring, Amazon Prime Video, etc.
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On the other hand i can’t remember when there was a serious outage on GCP, unlike AWS/Azure who seem to go down catastrophically a couple of times per year.
Perhaps you don't notice GCP outages because so few companies rely on them?
We rely on them so I would have definitely noticed.
Even a couple of minutes and our customers would freak out…
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#348Everyone is eager to point a finger at Google, but I've been a user of Railway for a while now, and I've seen enough nonsense to want to hear what GCP has to say about this before drawing any conclusions. Let's just say Railway has had problems like this before, and the way their team handles them does not inspire any confidence. Regardless of how it happened, for me, this is the straw that broke the camel's back.
>I've seen enough nonsense to want to hear what GCP has to say about this before drawing any conclusions Sure but not even a warning before shutting down their account?
According to the timeline the account was suspended for 18 minutes total. That is fast enough that it could have simply been a bug in a Google rollout or something that made something think it was suspended when it wasn’t really.
If it was actually suspended the yeah it’s weird not to get an email.
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In my experience, DNS changes are a lot faster than they used to be. There’s some website that has a map that tries to resolve your domain with a bunch of name servers around the world that was pretty neat to look at last time I migrated something.
I became so conditioned to waiting hours(!) for DNS propagation that I'm always pleasantly surprised when it takes <5 min these days.
Yeah way back in the day I’d be used to waiting overnight
Re: Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]
#350>We have resolved this incident and a post mortem is available here. > https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-may-19-2026-gcp-a... >May 20, 07:57 UTC https://status.railway.com/incident/I23M92U0
It should be possible to sue Google for damages in such cases. This isnt a network outage or service failure which I would consider part of ToS.
It's always possible to sue, but Google has good terms of service and lawyers - I'm 99% confident that a lawsuit would end up nowhere.