Did the government just test-fire its Internet kill-switch?
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-02/did-government-just-test-internet-kill-switch
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.
One Google insider explains (via YCombinator):
I work on Google Cloud (but disclaimer, I'm on vacation and so not much use to you!).
We're having what appears to be a serious networking outage. It's disrupting everything, including unfortunately the tooling we usually use to communicate across the company about outages.
There are backup plans, of course, but I wanted to at least come here to say: you're not crazy, nothing is lost (to those concerns downthread), but there is serious packet loss at the least. You'll have to wait for someone actually involved in the incident to say more.
Ironically…
The notification gateway to advise Google that cloud is down, is also on the cloud… and is down.
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) June 2, 2019