Google Cloud Networking Outage Darkens Websites

By Chris Barnhart On Nov 17, 2021

Google Cloud Networking Outage Darkens Websites

Google Cloud is experiencing an outage that is causing websites to display 404 page not found errors. The problem at this time is partially resolved and sites are coming back online.

The issues was specific to Google Cloud Networking and appeared to be partially remedied about twenty minutes later.

The Google Cloud outage incident took down major websites such as Snapchat, Discord and Spotify.

Google’s Cloud Status Dashboard explained:

“Incident affecting Google Cloud Networking

Global: Experiencing Issue with Cloud networking

Summary: Global: Experiencing Issue with Cloud networking

Description: We are experiencing an issue with Cloud Networking beginning at Tuesday, 2021-11-16 09:53 US/Pacific.

Diagnosis: Customers may encounter 404 errors when accessing web pages.

Workaround: None at this time.”

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Google subsequently updated their status to say that the problem was partially fixed:

“Description: We believe the issue with Cloud Networking is partially resolved.

Customers will be unable to apply changes to their load balancers until the issue is fully resolved.”

Many Sites Are Affected

Jason Barnard posted that his website was down:

Getting an *official* Google 404 for my sites

Cool?
Not Cool?
Scary? pic.twitter.com/hRHPxdkp3T

— ???? Jason Barnard ???? (@jasonmbarnard) November 16, 2021

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According to a tweet by Akvile DeFazio, sites such as SEMRush and Spotify were throwing 404 response codes:

Yowza. It appears that many sites just went down. SEMrush, Spotify, Toggl. Any others you are seeing 404?

— Akvile DeFazio (@AkvileDeFazio) November 16, 2021

Many other major sites went down as well:

Spotify, Discord, Nest, and a bunch of stuff is down. The interesting thing is that Nest and Spotify are returning Google 404 errors.

— Sam Curry (@samwcyo) November 16, 2021

Citation

Google Cloud Incident Report

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