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Google Suffers Massive Outage and Reimburses Cloud Clients
📅 - Google will reimburse the Google Compute Engine users as much as 25% due to an outage causing issues across multiple regions on Monday. The outage lasted a total of 18 minutes and didn't have any effect on the Google Cloud Storage, Google App Engine or other Google Cloud Platform products.
This may not seem like very much time, but it's an eternity in the cloud world. Since the outage impacted multiple regions, Google wasn't able to failover to a different region. The issue came from engineers removing an unused GCE IP block. .
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