Ask HN: GCP Outage?
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·July 18, 2025blitzar
Systems down, heading to the pub.
ge96
Every time pager duty hits, take a shot
mbf
I forgot all about pager duty... been retired over a year now. I don't miss pager duty.
CoastalCoder
> I forgot all about pager duty
Probably because it's hard to form long-term memories when you're sleep-deprived :/
dondraper36
https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/8cY8jdUpEGGbsSMSQk...
Seems to be some hardware problem at least in us-east1
freedomben
Definitely been seeing a handful of 50x errors this morning. Fortunately seems like a partial outage but definitely annoying (and can sometimes indicate worse trouble coming)
palcu
There is an external incident now.
https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/8cY8jdUpEGGbsSMSQk...
Ironlink
Our system in EU observed some slowness and a few 500 and 503 responses from `identitytoolkit.googleapis.com` over a period of about 10 minutes.
lebski88
Our VPN restarted about an hour ago and caused a bit of excitement, on the whole it's been a lot less _interesting_ than the last one thankfully.
tosh
Firebase Firestore is either down or very high latency in us-east1
ghxst
Multiple people within our company reporting issues. Mostly from US, us in the EU still seem fine as of right now.
edit: Never mind, it's down for me now as well.
romanzubenko
We first noticed google login issues with our app, can't login with google anywhere now, Google Analytics is down as well.
staletofu
Can't login with google to langsmith at the moment and gcp login is loading either. Seems like there is something afoot.
dangoodmanUT
Reminder that multi cloud >>> multi region
Anyone who says otherwise is selling availability theater
Too many whole-cloud outages due to a bad config in the last 2 months (GCP x2, cloudflare x2)
18172828286177
This isn’t a whole-cloud outage. It’s not even a whole-region outage.
Whole-cloud outages are pretty damn rare. The recent GCP issues are an exception to the general rule.
I’d posit that the complexity of a multi-cloud setup is generally going to reduce your service’s reliability more than relying on a single cloud does.
dangoodmanUT
Not about regions, it’s about services
remram
Whole-zone outages are also rare...
jonathaneunice
And also that effort(multi cloud) >>> effort(multi region)
JohnMakin
I've maintained a large multi-cloud architecture in the past. The problem is they really hit you hard on egress costs. Of course the motivation is obvious, they want to keep you locked in to their vendor. I did like that it gave a stronger leverage in contract renewals, but that was about it. The IAC was much more complicated and required more people/areas of knowledge. So it's definitely a tradeoff.
You are correct that it's "better" though if your goal is to have as many 9's of uptime as possible.
mads_quist
I currently have the strong opinion that for many mid-sized orgs with 250+ engineers it can be more resilient if you go back to bare metal or at least VM only in two or three local date centers. Yes, you need to know that they do their job well. But it will probably also reduce a lot of devops overhead...
dilyevsky
There are multiple companies that help you with that by running tunnels via Direct Interconnect (Direct Connect in AWS) so that you "only" pay 2c/G egressing data out of VPC via this tunnel
jeanlucas
Multiple people in Brazil reporting:
- SSO issues;
- Google workspace tools not loading;
current time: 2025-07-18T15:35:43+00:00 12h35 GMT-3
Status page is, as expected, all green, but anyone noticing anything unusual? Services on cloud run timing out for me.