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Re: GCP Outage

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Post by Uehreka »

wbl wrote: post #334
kingstnap wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because they have unrealistic targets so they make up fake uptime numbers. 99.999% would mean not even having an hour of downtime in 10 years. I remember reddit being down for like a whole day or so and they claimed 99.5% in that month.

Ma Bell hit that decently often.

Is that even knowable? Like, I know they called it “The Astonishing, Unfailing, Bell System” but if they had an outage somewhere did they actually have an infrastructure of “canary phones” and such to tell in real time? (As in, they’d know even if service was restored in an hour)

Not trying to snark, I legit got nerdsniped by this comment.

Re: GCP Outage

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Post by wbl »

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.

That explains why I couldn't get the photo of my parents dog today.

Re: GCP Outage

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Post by toast0 »

roywiggins wrote: post #348
foota wrote: post #311

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I'm not sure any single company could have an outage that would take out SMS globally, but RCS is presumably more centralized.

SMS is pretty much decentralized, although there's a few companies with a lot of reach. I don't remember any Global SMS outages, but it wasn't uncommon for a whole carrier to have an SMS outage and especially for inter-carrier SMS to be broken from time to time (sometimes for days). I've certainly seen some stuff with SMS aggregators: almost all of them claim a majority of direct links, but when you have accounts with 4 large aggregators and one of them has an outage, you find out which of your other account use that aggregator for which links (because their deliverability will go to zero to those destinations).

RCS was designed and specced, by GSMA, as a telco run decentralized system that would replace SMS as like for like; but there were only a handful of rollouts. It's really only gotten use as Google pushed it onto Android, using their RCS server; recently iOS started using it although I don't know what server they attach to.

Since RCS is basically the 5th wave Google IM, it's no surprise when they have a major outage, RCS is pretty much broken.

Re: GCP Outage

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Post by sva_ »

cryptonector wrote: post #353
atonse wrote: post #26

Getting a lot of errors for Claude Sonnet 4 (Cursor) and Gemini Pro. Nooooo I'm going to have to use my brain again and write 100% of my code like a caveman from December 2024.

Devs before June 12, 2025: "Ai? Pfft, hallucination central. They'll never replace me!" Devs during June 12, 2025 GCP outage: "What, no AI?! Do you think I'm a slave?!"

It appears like "Devs" is not a homogeneous mass.

Re: GCP Outage

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Post by ilkkao »

whalesalad wrote: post #386
mrngm wrote: post #373

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My default go-to: https://bgp.tools/ Why would you think this outage is (internet) BGP related?

Cloudflare runs all their own bare metal servers. Seems odd that they would be impacted by Google cloud. Same can be said for all the other issues on downdetector. This points to a broad issue at the core internet which could certainly be related to BGP.

Cloudflare is now saying:

"Cloudflare’s critical Workers KV service went offline due to an outage of a 3rd party service that is a key dependency."

I really hope CF explains this apparent Google dependecy in detail in their post mortem.

Re: GCP Outage

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Post by ikiris »

paxys wrote: post #376
AdamJacobMuller wrote: post #372

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Google. https://status.cloud.google.com/regional/americas

It's more likely to be a broader issue that is affecting AWS, Microsoft, Cloudflare, GCP. They aren't all dependent on Google infra.

Oh look, they were.

Cloud flare was really the gcp problem. Most of the others are going to be dependencies on cf or random Google stuff.

Discord for example was gcs for updates, etc

Re: GCP Outage

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Post by scottmf »

ashu1461 wrote: post #128
sujayakar wrote: post #107

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switch to auto mode and it should still work!

GPT is working in agent mode, which kind of confirms that claude is hosted on google and GPT probably on MSFT servers / self hosted.

Claude runs on AWS afaik. And OAI on Azure. Edit: oh okay maybe GCP too then. I’m personally having no problem using Claude Code though.

Re: GCP Outage

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Post by andrelaszlo »

baggy_trough wrote: post #344
admissionsguy wrote: post #337

Google denies the outage. https://x.com/Google/status/1933246051512644069

"clearing cache and cookies"? what is this, 1997?

First, check that nobody else in your family is making a call on the phone line that your modem is connected to, then make sure to disable your Internet Explorer add-ons before trying again.

Re: GCP Outage

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Post by whalesalad »

ilkkao wrote: post #416
whalesalad wrote: post #386

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cloudflare runs all their own bare metal servers. Seems odd that they would be impacted by Google cloud. Same can be said for all the other issues on downdetector. This points to a broad issue at the core internet which could certainly be related to BGP.

Cloudflare is now saying: "Cloudflare’s critical Workers KV service went offline due to an outage of a 3rd party service that is a key dependency." I really hope CF explains this apparent Google dependecy in detail in their post mortem.

Imagine it's just a google spanner wrapper lmao
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