Google Blames Software Glitch for Two-Hour Cloud Service Disruption
February 20, 2015
Grazed from eWeek. Author: Jaikumar Vijayan.
Google’s Compute Engine cloud infrastructure hosting service suffered a nearly two-hour disruption between late Feb. 18 and early Feb. 19 causing disruption for customers on a global scale. The disruption started at 10:59 p.m. Pacific Time on Feb. 18 and was resolved shortly before 1 a.m. on Feb. 19, a Google incident report noted.
The company blamed the outage on a glitch in an internal software system used to manage virtual machine egress traffic on the Google Compute Engine. According to Google, the software stopped issuing updated routing information bring outbound traffic to a halt…
Google said that for about 40 minutes the majority of Google’s Compute Engine instances “experienced traffic loss for outbound network connectivity.” The total length of detectable traffic loss was 2 hours and 40 minutes…