Google Cloud Caused Outage By Ignoring Its Usual Code Quality Protections

Google Cloud’s recent outage was caused by a flawed code update in its Service Control system, which lacked error handling and feature flag protection, leading to a global crash loop. Although the incident was identified and recovery initiated quickly, it took nearly three hours to resolve in larger regions due to infrastructure overload, prompting Google to promise improvements in communication and monitoring for future incidents.

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