Tell HN: Google banned Railway's account. Everything down
Everything down including railway.com - this is a bad outage. :(
It's going to be interesting to watch this unfold. Google's automation vs LLM agents, no humans from either side.
If you think other big tech or bank won't do it for you if you "don't do anything wrong" - you might be delusional.
The only way to fight it is redundancy. Dont vendor lock in all you stuff in aws/google/cf/whatever. They can (and will) fuck you up at some point.
It isn't for other big tech/banks. It's just a risk assessment, and Google are a high risk partner.
I deal with it daily. If i would start writing, I would spend half day just writing.
It's in no way to say Google is any good - it's just equally bad as any reasonably big organisation. No more and no less.
Usually they don't ban large organizations without some prior consultations. SMEs are victims usually. AWS/Azure and sorts know there will be no public recourse so they can cut without any notice. It's same with banks - if you are big enough they won't suspend you, but if you are SME they can suspend in a moment without any legitimate reason. They can suspend and say their "risk assessment team is looking at it" which is BS excuse knowing how banks work. At same time your contractors couldn't be paid and you can't receive money yourself.
I don't have an answer on how to solve that besides putting in law that any service provider vital for company operations (bank, telco, etc) shouldn't suspend or limit service rendering without court order. This is rather unrealistic and won't hit legislation because of same big organization lobby.