Comment by gizzlon
20 hours ago
Agreed, I'm very curious as to how this could happen.
But TheRegister did reach out to Google and they have not replied yet: https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/20/google-cloud...
20 hours ago
Agreed, I'm very curious as to how this could happen.
But TheRegister did reach out to Google and they have not replied yet: https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/20/google-cloud...
> But TheRegister did reach out to Google and they have not replied yet
That is exactly what GCP should do: not comment on a customer's issues. Even when it's due to abuse from a customer, which might even be the case.
Railway are alleging that this affected many GCP accounts, which would make at least a confirmation or denial of scope appropriate.
> Railway are alleging that this affected many GCP accounts, (...)
From what I've read in other comments, the root cause seems to have been automatic account suspension as an anti-abuse measures.
It's also telling that Railway describes the root cause simply as "Google Cloud Platform has suspended Railway's production account." It then mentions this
> At 22:20 UTC on May 19, Google Cloud placed Railway’s production account into a suspended status incorrectly, as part of an automated action. This action extended to many accounts within Google Cloud. As this was a platform-wide action, there was no proactive outreach to individual customers prior to the restriction.
The why is conspicuously absent, but this sort of sweep is indeed consistent with anti-abuse measure.
If this is the case I would be cautious in accusing a cloud provider of wrongdoing. Many things need to go awfully wrong to trigger this sort of alarm, and I'm not talking about GCP's anti-abuse system. In fact, it's telling that no reputable, well established business is reporting any impact. The whole point of any anti-abuse system is to suspend accounts that are caught engaging in some sort of abuse.