We've been having 'fun' with ongoing issues for a site since 6pm UTC yesterday, which got dramatically worse this morning...and having been recurring during the day.<p>Having multiple hour outages makes me really want to go back to hiring a couple of physical servers in a rack somewhere.
Just to verify my understanding:<p>* This is a multi-region (us-east1, us-central1, europe-west1, asia-northeast1 and asia-east1) outage (yeesh)<p>* Incident began at Incident began at 2017-08-29 18:35 PDT. At the time of this comment, we're over 13 hours (??)<p>Correct?
"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable." — Leslie Lamport<p>I think Leslie needs to update this for Cloud, however.
we've been suffering from this since 3:07am UK time and it's sad to see google still hasn't learnt how to do support/communicate with their paying customers after all the flack they always take about this.<p>The number of mistakes (silly and otherwise) keeps increasing and I'm not talking about the technical problem itself! ok, end of rant