“‘I felt a great disturbance in the farce, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.”
At 3pmET, it appears that Google Cloud (affecting Gmail, YouTube, SnapChat, Instagram, and Facebook among others) mysteriously (and almost unprecedently) went offline.
A systemic network outage may have just occurred.. #ES_F pic.twitter.com/M4yP3MN8jS
— 🅱️🅰️ (@Ba1221) June 2, 2019
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Google Compute Engine Incident #19003 We are experiencing a multi-region issue with Google Compute Engine
Incident began at 2019-06-02 12:25 (all times are US/Pacific).
Jun 02, 20 12:25 We are investigating an issue with Google Compute Engine. We will provide more information by Sunday, 2019-06-02 12:45 US/Pacific.
Twitter is beside itself…
Google Cloud’s services are down. Also why Pokemon Go is down. pic.twitter.com/I7pvghIIej
— Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog) June 2, 2019
Did the government just test-fire its Internet kill-switch?
via ZeroHedge News https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-02/did-government-just-test-internet-kill-switch Tyler Durden