Google has issued an apology following a significant outage that disrupted Google Cloud services globally, impacting major platforms like Cloudflare, OpenAI, and Shopify. The downtime, lasting for hours, was attributed to a flawed update involving a new “quota policy checks” feature. Google engineers identified the issue quickly, but overloaded systems in larger regions prolonged the recovery.
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