Google engineer unplugged every fiber they could see and – surprise! – took down a chunk of the G-Cloud

Google Cloud has revealed the embarrassing reason for a partial outage at its us-central1-b region this week: An engineer unplugged it. The incident spanned 07:41 to 11:52 PT on September 1, and saw a portion of the G-Cloud region experience “severe network degradation and resource isolation.” “Traffic flow drop rates for resources hosted in the affected area reached 100% during the peak of the incident, resulting in unreachable virtual machines and elevated packet loss,”