#GoogleCloud’s automated systems incorrectly suspended Railway's production account, triggering an ~8-hour platform-wide outage.
The incident completely took down: 🛑 The main dashboard & API 🛑 Code deployments 🛑 Active databases ... impacting ~3M users!
More details on #InfoQ ⇨ https://bit.ly/3QgyotG
Google Cloud's automated systems suspended Railway's production account without notice, triggering an eight-hour platform-wide outage affecting 3 million users. The cascade took down workloads across all providers including AWS and bare metal because Railway's control plane was hosted on GCP. Railway is demoting GCP to backup-only status.
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