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Google outage – resolved

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Post by tibu »

throwawaylolx wrote: post #443
sammorrowdrums wrote: post #344

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I, and probably many others here are like a status page for friends and family too... I had my wife thinking that the internet was broken, and tried tethering to phone and things and still didn't work, then showed me and I saw the status code errors and was like "it's actually parts of Google that are down". I love (and am deeply scared by) the dependence of Google and the confusion of it with the entire internet.

It gets even worse: https://twitter.com/joemfbrown/status/1338452107419148290 >I’m sitting here in the dark in my toddler’s room because the light is controlled by @Google Home. Rethinking... a lot right now. Some people are compiling more relevant events: https://twitter.com/internetofshit

Home Assistant rulez with non-cloud sensors. I never by sensors, cameras, switches which require connection to an external host. But I'm sure that most people will do it even with such outages too.

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Post by ojosilva »

mmillin wrote: post #121

Given the blast radius of this (all regions appear to be impacted) along with the fact that services that don't rely on auth are working as normal, it must be a global authN/Z issue. I do not envy Google engineers right now.

If this does not improve soon, we're looking at one of the most significant outages in recent internet history, at least from the number of people impacted.

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Post by rk06 »

lucb1e wrote: post #256

But why is HN so slow? Pages take like 30+ seconds to load for me (German vantage point, other sites are fine). Does it timeout on some Google dependency or try to use a Google submarine cable or something? Or is everyone just posting to HN about it?

It is called HN hug of death (or Reddit hug of death). the traffic due to google outage is much more than usual

Re: Google outage – resolved

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Post by duncanawoods »

lxgr wrote: post #497
mozinator wrote: post #445

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly after my setIamPolicy API request to Google Cloud was the exact moment everything went down.

Probably dozens of other people executed comparable requests in the instant you did.

Indeed. I deleted a gcp project at the same time.

However, it would be fun if it had a UUID clash with a google service :)

Re: Google outage – resolved

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Post by tarruda »

mmillin wrote: post #121

Given the blast radius of this (all regions appear to be impacted) along with the fact that services that don't rely on auth are working as normal, it must be a global authN/Z issue. I do not envy Google engineers right now.

> I do not envy Google engineers right now.

A few years ago I released a bug in production that prevented users from logging into our desktop app. It affected about ~1k users before we found out and rolled back the release.

I still remember a very cold feeling in my belly, barely could sleep that night. It is difficult to imagine what the people responsible for this are feeling right now.

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