TL;DR
Google Cloud's global IAM service glitched on June 12th at 10:50 AM PT, causing authentication failures across dozens of GCP produ...
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the sheer scale of this is kinda humbling, honestly. i’ve enjoyed all the research you’ve put into this, it adds up
you ever feel like there’s no amount of redundancy that’s truly enough when so much rides on one vendor?
Totally feel that, when one vendor goes down and everything topples, it really exposes how fragile even “redundant” systems can be. Appreciate you reading and engaging!
Reading this really hammers home how much hidden risk is buried deep in cloud dependencies, even for 'multi-cloud' setups. Curious if you've seen any team actually simulate this kind of auth/control plane outage for real?
Great point!! very few teams simulate control plane or IAM outages at this scale. Most chaos drills focus on app or data plane. This incident might finally push teams to test deeper dependencies.
Feels like the decentralized web gets a little bit more centralized every day. I can't even fathom how much tech runs on Google/AWS servers.
It really sucks. Not only that, it's really expensive
Agreed Lynett!!!
Lord Google!!!!! Btw Thanks for reading.
great
Thanks Arsh!!
Quite in-depth Analysis!!!
Thanks for reading!!!
Looks really good, thanks for info
Thanks for reading Nadeem!!!
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Thanks Nube!!!
Amazing!
Thanks!!!
Good info!
Thanks Emily!!