Google Services had gone down in multiple places, mostly back online! (Authentication System Outage for 15 minutes)

[AvMaverick]

16 minutes ago, wkdpaul said:

I heard this was related to SolarWind.

But how does the search engine and services part stay intact while the account system goes down?

 

On a side note, I'd have loved it if the YouTube algorithm had been erased.

[leadeater]

1 minute ago, StinkBreath said:

It's not just Google, as Discord was also down at the time. 

Discord uses Google Cloud Services so not surprising it was affected.

[SolarNova]

I've seen 'news' reports on this across MSM, and the de-facto response is ..oh must be Russia, or must be China...

 

Seriously, the Fk has happened to real journalism?

[WkdPaul]

3 minutes ago, AvMaverick said:

But how does the search engine and services part stay intact while the account system goes down?

It's related to how SolarWind is integrated into Google's infrastructure, I don't have any details on that though. All I know is that it COULD be related to SolarWind and the exploit that was discovered.

[RejZoR]

You know what's good side of not using anything Google? Wasn't affected at all lol What sucks is how many 3rd party services depend on Google's crap and also get affected.

[mjuzikmen]

4 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Discord uses Google Cloud Services so not surprising it was affected.

Yeah I thought so, Google is so big nowadays that if it goes down, it takes everything with it

[leadeater]

Just now, RejZoR said:

You know what's good side of not using anything Google? Wasn't affected at all lol What sucks is how many 3rd party services depend on Google's crap and also get affected.

This topic is the first I knew of it and without it I would likely never have known

[RejZoR]

37 minutes ago, leadeater said:

This topic is the first I knew of it and without it I would likely never have known

There are memes floating about it already XD

[WkdPaul]

@AvMaverick

 

Thanks for the Tweet update from Google ;

 

So it wasn't related to SolarWind, but rather something a lot more commun ; storage issues !! lol

 

[sub68]

I resived a email saying google is down for school

I think that's a lie or its fixed

[AvMaverick]

1 minute ago, wkdpaul said:

@AvMaverick

Thanks for the Tweet update from Google ;

Welcome! Added to topic too!

 

1 minute ago, wkdpaul said:

So it wasn't related to SolarWind, but rather something a lot more commun ; storage issues !! lol

But... Google's storage problems are becoming a recurring pattern. Drive Trash being deleted, unlimited Photos entering a paywall, and killing inactive 2+ year old accounts. I can sense a pattern here. 

[AvMaverick]

2 minutes ago, sub68 said:

I resived a email saying google is down for school

I think that's a lie or its fixed

It was, now fixed

[PeachGr]

Now that dust have settled, check your subscriptions. Some have "by an accident" disappeared

[_Obi_Wan_Kenobi_]

2020 be like: looking left and right for cars on the road, the getting hit by a plane

[_Obi_Wan_Kenobi_]

more apps have just gone down according to downdetector.com! could this be the work of Russia

[wall03]

7 hours ago, AvMaverick said:

Moreover, seems like Google's running out of storage. They are aggressively deleting old accounts that have been unresponsive for 2+ years, deleting trash after 30 days, and ending Photos unlimited storage. All these storage saving measures and a storage related outage point to one thing: We might be nearing the point of saturation of the internet.

[bit]

3 hours ago, AvMaverick said:

Welcome! Added to topic too!

 

But... Google's storage problems are becoming a recurring pattern. Drive Trash being deleted, unlimited Photos entering a paywall, and killing inactive 2+ year old accounts. I can sense a pattern here. 

yeah a huge pattern of deleting old unused data. just normal cost-benefit. they could keep adding storage orrrrrrr they could just delete data that isn't used + inactive accounts which is pretty normal?

 

nah you're right, the internet is just full instead.

[leadeater]

8 hours ago, wkdpaul said:

@AvMaverick

 

Thanks for the Tweet update from Google ;

 

So it wasn't related to SolarWind, but rather something a lot more commun ; storage issues !! lol

 

 

Google Engineer: "I need to apply a new storage quota. Is the input value supposed to be in bytes or kilobytes? Oh well, guess we'll find out"........ "Well it wasn't kilobytes, oops"

[AvMaverick]

9 hours ago, _Obi_Wan_Kenobi_ said:

more apps have just gone down according to downdetector.com! could this be the work of Russia

(Redacted) also has allies that use Google services. I don't like how everything going down in the (Redacted) is supposed to be (Redacted). It could be (Redacted) too!

[leadeater]

1 hour ago, AvMaverick said:

Russia also has allies that use Google services. I don't like how everything going down in the US is supposed to be Russia. It could be China too!

Why does nobody think it could have been New Zealand? 

 

But really when it comes to computer systems odds are it is a technical or administrative issue, jumping to hacking and nation state blaming is whole heartedly premature (plus ya know, forum rules around politics ).

[AvMaverick]

29 minutes ago, leadeater said:

But really when it comes to computer systems odds are it is a technical or administrative issue, jumping to hacking and nation state blaming is whole heartedly premature (plus ya know, forum rules around politics ).

I know, it was satire that people starting blaming nations. We haven't reached perfect software/hardware yet, and issues do happen sometimes

[leadeater]

2 minutes ago, AvMaverick said:

I know, it was satire that people starting blaming nations. We haven't reached perfect software/hardware yet, and issues do happen sometimes

Yea I knew that was what you were doing, I just wanted an excuse to make the New Zealand joke 

[Bitter]

7 minutes ago, leadeater said:

Yea I knew that was what you were doing, I just wanted an excuse to make the New Zealand joke 

It's YOUR fault, you took all the SSD's for that stupid solid state server build!

[leadeater]

2 minutes ago, Bitter said:

It's YOUR fault, you took all the SSD's for that stupid solid state server build!

Well I only have around 10 SSDs, I have nothing to do with LTT and Linus other than to tell Linus he's doing it wrong (those Intel 750 NVMe SSDs I told him not to use, but he's seen the light on that one now). @Windows7gehas more SSDs and SSD capacity than I do.

[Mihle]

14 hours ago, leadeater said:

Discord uses Google Cloud Services so not surprising it was affected.

Discord was not affected that much for me, well, it was slower but it still worked.

 

Either that or I missed the window where it was actually down and it was just slower right after it worked again.