Still is down - cannot access gmail, tried to Google the status page, then realised I'll have to use Bing for that.

Surprised it still hasn't been resolved, the problems have been ongoing for 2 hours already.

Waiting for that post mortem, really interested in how this failed - I'd assume they have dozens of fallback scenarios ready.

Related Ask NH thread is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45124458

Google is not down, half BGP routing table is gone. Lots of services are not working, but it has notighing to do with google.

I guess this is today's reminder to de-google. It is not healthy or safe to put so much critical infrastructure in one company.

Adding some facts.

No-one in Georgia could access google, everything else worked. googleapis.com and google.com seemed to be the only thing affected.

If you VPN'd out you were fine. Hilariously, we use tailscale, so thought cool, we'll enable mullvand for everyone, but ofcourse, tailscale needs google social auth to login.. so the fix for our Tbilisi team was install nordvpn, connect to that, login to tailscale, disconnect nordvpn then tunnel out to anywhere.

I spoke to Benjojo (bgp.tools) who heard the incident "was a cable cut shunt near Sofia"

Term "eastern eu" or "eastern Europe" was always fuzzy to me. If deep down you were never sure where you belonged, use this simple test: when you were a kid and you went to your grandparents house during summer vacation, where did they had toilet? If it was inside the house, it's western Europe. If it was outside the house, it's Eastern Europe.

t. Eastern European. But Google is working here.

For me at least ChatGPT was down as well. Does anybody have an idea what they're using from Google?