On Monday night, Google's Compute Engine went dark for 18 minutes. The Engine itself was whirring away just fine, but incoming internet traffic to its servers was misrouted, breaking users' connections and preventing them from reconnecting. If you're not actually sure what the Compute Engine is or who it serves, that may seem like no big deal. To Google, however, a Cloud outage, whether it's rooted in connectivity issues or somewhere deeper, is dire as hell."We recognize the severity of this outage, and we apologize to all of our customers for allowing it to occur," a Google post-mortem analysis
published on Tuesday
begins. "As of this writing, the root cause of the outage is fully understood and GCE is not at risk of a recurrence... Our engineering teams will be working over the next several weeks on a broad array of prevention, detection and mitigation systems intended to add additional defense in depth to our existing production safeguards."

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