Code crash? Russian hackers? Nope. Good ol' broken fiber cables borked Google Cloud's networking today

Connectivity to us-east1 knackered for hours, still no fix

Fiber-optic cables linking Google Cloud servers in its us-east1 region physically broke today, slowing down or effectively cutting off connectivity with the outside world.…

via The Register - Data Centre: Cloud
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2019/07/03/google_cloud_outage/