Google Compute Engine is down, bringing half the internet with it - Sensationalist Headlines

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/107208/31fc7b2b-8373-4845-9f42-2e6e6ee0720d/IMG_20190602_153610.jpg Not seeing any articles yet, but GCE has been down for a bit. Google Cloud Status Dashboard

Was wondering what was going on. Both Google Images and YouTube have been acting slow for me. I wonder what caused this.

Ah, that explains it.

I sure picked a good time to upload a 2.3GB video to YouTube, the upload's stalled out at 69%. This GCE outage is protecting the Internet from 30 minutes of FPARMA autism being unleashed on the world so, silver linings and all that.

That explains why Pokémon Go was acting sluggish a bit ago.

Looks like they've updated the status page. It's not GCE, it's Google Cloud Networking, bringing everything else with it.

This explains Discord issues I ran into since they rely on Google's Cloud servers.

Kinda shows how dependent things are on google. I had no idea about most of these even using something related to google.

I like how Spectrum's graph is just a constant chaotic mess of obvious incompetence.

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It's an outage graph. Everyone else's graph is completely flat until one event -- GCN going down. Spectrum's graph indicates that they've been dealing with constant outages since before any issue with GCN ever occurred.

That explains why I was unable to retrieve stuff from gmail, what a mess. Wonder how this will affect things like order confirmations and bills being sent

That's the advantage of being drunk most of the time, you never notice outages You just whirr up the external HDD to access the naughty folder

BABY NO!

So when are we going to break them apart again?

It's back on currently for me. While it was being worked on though it let me use my Goggle account and not my actual YouTube channel with all of my videos and subscribers. Shits weird and hopefully this isn't a reoccurring problem.

As a Charter user... yep.

Show Baldy your tits YouTube's being weird in changing ways. I uploaded the video and it refused to let me update info like the title, description, etc. Then it did save it and it displays in the editor dashboard, but the actual video page doesn't reflect the changes and still says it's private. But people can watch the video if I give them the link. What a mess.

We're getting some crazy weather down here too I just checked. Some nasty hail pelting down like bullets and I swear I heard something break outside. Maybe the shit weather is what's causing the outage as in something physically broke so the servers are down?

I've literally never had more unstable internet in my fucking life. When i lived a city over when i was married, I never had an issue with the internet, ever. But moving back to a rural area? Charter is the fucking worst, it feels like every couple minutes im switching between Data and Wifi on my phone just to watch a video.

So this is why my google drive is failing to open or upload documents, and why youtube keeps half loading pages. RIP

Pretty sobering thought, if Google just up and died, that is a lot of services that would go down with it. No wonder Discord and such was acting up, I had no clue they were working with Google's stuff like that.

After the merger with Time Warner Communications and Bright House they became trash. They were absolutely top tier prior to then with incredible stability. They still have some really good stuff like no datacaps or throttling, but their reliability went to shit after the merger.

Breaking Google apart would have absolutely no effect on things like this. I mean hell, half the net went down when the chucklefuck that made left pad screwed up an update.

It's less the downtime, and more the near-monopoly that Google has on web services.

I was wondering why I coulden't watch Civvie11 on youtube earlier today...

France - unaffected. This is clearly the French at work.

more things still rely on AWS, which has died in the (not too distant) past and that was awful too

Yeah, as it stands a lot of the web services we use today rely on AWS, Google Cloud or Azure almost entirely in that order of preference. Whenever AWS has downtime services that aren't properly setup across multiple zones will go down, and those that are set up properly start to get slow for some due to the increased response time of using a different geographical data centre. The massive reliance on these distributed cloud platforms, somewhat ironically has made the internet more centralised. Almost every single company in the digital space is using one of these three for their hosting solution or compute solution because it's pretty damn cost effective compared to actually owning your own hardware for a lot of use cases. But it means when they break, a lot of shit breaks. Thankfully they don't break often and are generally so redundant that we aren't even noticing the failures they are having.

is this why steam broadcast is utter garbage today or is steam broadcast always utter garbage