Google Cloud encountered an outage, causing the website to display a 404 page not found error. The current problem has been partially resolved, and the website is being relaunched.
The Google Cloud outage caused major websites such as Snapchat, Discord, and Spotify to paralyze.
This issue is specific to Google Cloud Networking, and according to the latest Google Cloud incident report, the issue appears to be partially fixed after about 20 minutes.
However, the same accident report also pointed out that there is no estimate when the fundamental problem will be completely resolved.
Google’s cloud status dashboard explains:
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“Events Affecting Google Cloud Network
Global: Encountering cloud network problems
Summary: Global: Encountering cloud network problems
Description: Starting at 09:53 on Tuesday, November 16, 2021 in the US/Pacific region, we are experiencing cloud network issues.
Diagnosis: Customers may encounter 404 errors when visiting webpages.
Solution: currently not available. “
Google subsequently updated their status, stating that the problem has been partially fixed:
“Description: We believe that the cloud network problem has been partially resolved.
Customers will not be able to apply changes to their load balancer until the problem is completely resolved. “
Many websites are affected
Jason Barnard posted that his website is down:
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Get *official* Google 404 for my website
Cool?
Not cool?
Fear? pic.twitter.com/hRHPxdkp3T— 𝄢 Jason Barnard𝄢 (@jasonmbarnard) November 16, 2021
According to a tweet by Akvile DeFazio, websites such as SEMRush and Spotify threw a 404 response code:
Yoza. It seems that many websites have just closed. SEMrush, Spotify, switch. Are the other people you see a 404?
-Akvile DeFazio (@AkvileDeFazio) November 16, 2021
Many other major websites are also malfunctioning:
Spotify, Discord, Nest, and a bunch of things are all closed. Interestingly, Nest and Spotify are returning Google 404 errors.
— Sam Curry (@samwcyo) November 16, 2021
