Regardless of how it happened, for me, this is the straw that broke the camel's back.
This. It's very odd that in other threads we see a bunch of accounts heavily invested in criticizing a cloud provider, but what's conspicuously absent from this wave of indignation is any curiosity in the root cause, or even any interest in exploring what it might have been. Quite odd.
But TheRegister did reach out to Google and they have not replied yet: https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/05/20/google-cloud...
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.
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.
Someone is just asking to get Google's side and explaining why they want that, which seems reasonable since we're in a post where Google is being punched/blamed for this, and it sounds like it isn't Railways first questionable outage.
Oof.
So I will hold my judgement until this has been disected a bit more
https://x.com/theo/status/2056946993407369300
https://xcancel.com/theo/status/2056946993407369300
Couldn't find it on yt.
Either way, I agree with blensor here, there's no new info on the railway incident itself but mostly about google's direction towards antigravity.
About the author of the video mentioning that he's scared, unfortunately, that has always been the case with Journalism/columnists etc, speaking ill of the platform which you use to sell your wares tends to backfire. Wish him all the luck
Sure but not even a warning before shutting down their account?
If it was actually suspended the yeah it’s weird not to get an email.
It's google, come on.