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New comment by shwetanshu21 in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

shwetanshu21 — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:37:20 +0000

TK TK TK TK. Welcome to the jungle.

New comment by shwetanshu21 in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

shwetanshu21 — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:34:30 +0000

In May 2024, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) accidentally deleted the private cloud account and all backups belonging to UniSuper, an Australian pension fund managing over $125 billion.

New comment by shwetanshu21 in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

shwetanshu21 — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:32:45 +0000

Sure, if this was one off isolated incident people would have agreed with you. But it's not. Even Google personal accounts have been used to ban their other ones including ones spending thousands of dollars on ads or GCP or any other paid google service, which is ridiculous.

New comment by shwetanshu21 in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

shwetanshu21 — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:22:46 +0000

Yup, updated with the article I mentioned by Steve Yegge. Still holds true today.

New comment by shwetanshu21 in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

shwetanshu21 — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:19:58 +0000

Yeah, sadly know that from being burned from one of their depreciations. In fact, 2-3. But you live and you learn. And it is better to learn from other's mistakes always.

New comment by shwetanshu21 in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

shwetanshu21 — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:18:28 +0000

"Railway owns our vendor choices, and we ultimately own this one. Your customers don't care whether the failure was Google or Railway; they see your product. Your uptime is our responsibility, and we'll keep delivering on it."

Kudos to them for acknowledging it and not doing PR speak. It shows it was an architectural failure from their part of trusting GCP, and they are working to fix it. Should they have seen it coming? Yes. But better late than never.

New comment by shwetanshu21 in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

shwetanshu21 — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:15:48 +0000

100% agree, I've seen on Twitter and HN small players facing similar issues with no recourse and response from Google. I don't know what kind of place they are trying to build there.

They got TK to woo the enterprise customers who were forced to be hostage to OCI. But it seems they are still doing opposite of hostage here.

New comment by shwetanshu21 in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

shwetanshu21 — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:14:16 +0000

That seems to be the case. But as we see it backfires. Railway is very public, but we know at hacker news google has been doing this kind of thing for quite some time now.

New comment by shwetanshu21 in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

shwetanshu21 — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:13:19 +0000

Then it's a bad endorsement for Gemini 3.5 pro too. But jokes aside, I think they need a customer centric thinking instead of a self-centred one they seem to harbour even before TK joined (not everything can be blamed on him although it should be his responsibility now).

New comment by shwetanshu21 in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

shwetanshu21 — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:11:51 +0000

Haha, no. I know Google bans anyone randomly with usually no recourse in sight. I just wanted to take a dig at how bad their LLM is too while we were at it and thinks like Google themselves which is not surprising.

New comment by shwetanshu21 in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

shwetanshu21 — Wed, 20 May 2026 18:11:05 +0000

This should be a warning to anyone running GCP. They suspend accounts left right and centre without even thinking about what they're doing. It seems like they use Gemini 3.1 Pro to run their production decisions.

TK has a history of absolutely destroying the culture of the place like in OCI and has done something similar in GCP from what I've heard. GCP and Google are completely different entities with how they work. Don't expect Google quality from the name. It's just like those old brands which now have cheap licensed products like Nokia (An exaggeration I know but not far from truth).

Not only that they are known to shut off their services randomly giving you like 6 months to migrate. They have lots of engineers not doing anything, so they put them on migrating internal users off those services, most of their clients don't. There was a brilliant article on this by an ex-GCP employee that I can't find right now.

Avoid GCP like plague if you are serious about your business.

Edit: Gemini (unironically) found the article on this, a very good read: https://steve-yegge.medium.com/dear-google-cloud-your-deprec...

New comment by shwetanshu21 in "Multiservice Impact for Azure Workloads in East US"

shwetanshu21 — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 18:38:17 +0000

No one even cares about Azure it seem. We just had an over 5 hour outage due to them.

New comment by shwetanshu21 in "I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job"

shwetanshu21 — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 09:04:05 +0000

Unfortunately this is becoming common in countries like India since there is no other option. We are looking for a mid level DevOps and get like 1000s of application. The requirements were clear we need k8s and IaC exp. But when we went to interview, none of them had production level exp. They told the recruiter that they had who didnt have a way to verify it. After 2-3 interviews like that, I had so start giving them Coderbyte assesments like write a k8s manifests, a Dockerfile and logs parsing. Otherwise, you won't be able to hire.

New comment by shwetanshu21 in "New iPad Air, powered by M4"

shwetanshu21 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 08:42:28 +0000

If you are married to Apple Ecosystem then yeah but Samsung Tablets have this feature. Plus better S-OLED screens for content consumption.

New comment by shwetanshu21 in "GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark"

shwetanshu21 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:57:02 +0000

Thanks, I was acutally wondering how would someone even manage to make that big a chip.

New comment by shwetanshu21 in "Another GitHub outage in the same day"

shwetanshu21 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 04:50:54 +0000

I guess firing so many in the Github team was not that wise a decision. But immediate share holder value go vrooom.

Long term impact? Leadership aint gonna stay to see that.

New comment by shwetanshu21 in "OpenAI exec becomes top Trump donor with $25M gift"

shwetanshu21 — Sun, 08 Feb 2026 12:42:17 +0000

Non-American but yup, Americans generally donate to people whose policies you support. For Non Americans it is a bit complicated but very much possible.