Comment by miniman1337
1 day ago
from the blog linked via Wayback Machine. "From Day 1, we had this notion at the forefront.
The other notion that we have intuited is that you can’t build a cloud on another cloud. We have devoted years of practice running our own metal (and playing well with other clouds) to make sure that Railway’s business, which invariably becomes your customer’s business, is as rock solid as possible."
I'm not familiar with Railway, so this might not make any sense, but it's possible they were using their own hardware but managing it with Google accounts. It's not uncommon for a company's offsite human-to-human communications to fail when there's a Google outage or ban, so it's not unexpected to have the same interference with human-to-machine or machine-to-machine communications.
That’s strange, when I interviewed with the founder a few years ago he told me they were on AWS wanting to move to firecracker.