Google told BGP to forget its Euro-cloud – after first writing bad access control lists
84-minute brownout and eight-hour VPN vanishment caused by update that left systems unable to access config files Share Copy Google has explained how it took a big slab of its Euro-cloud offline last week, and as usual the problem was of its own making. The 9 December incident was brief and contained – it started at 18:31 PT (02:31 UTC), lasted 84 minutes and only impacted the europe-west2-a zone – but meant 60 per cent of VMs in the zone were unreachable from the outside world. Google said VM creation and deletion operations stalled during the outage, while any VMs or hosts that ...
Source: theregister.com