actually logged in to make a joke about how the everyday vpc hiccups we live with are becoming indistinguishable from reported downage but of course hn has more current info than the gcp team i was chatting with and if this trend of cutting undersea cables continues i'm getting a shortwave ;)

>From preliminary analysis, the root cause of the issue was a capacity shortage following two simultaneous fiber-cuts.

That is... unusual... correct? O_o

Especially if one was an undersea cable if not possibly both? O_O

(I'd ask on Twitter, but the handle for this nym was removed after I started to monitor how many people viewed my jokes -- some would get only a hundred views, some many many thousands, and it broke my heart it seemed to matter more if I angered the wrong people than if I sincerely tried to share my thoughts that my account was nuked, especially since the most useful data was not available via the takeout tool)

The Internet really is a series of tubes after all.

And SEA-ME-WE-5 too apparently.

I had a Wiocc outage on London-Kenya last night, didn't think much about it, maybe they rerouted from break last night, and that's why I had such big problems today

If they both went together than that feels like an anchor, if one went last night and another today that's a nasty coincidence. I'm not sure which is worse.