“As it turns out, a Google engineer was able to arbitrarily change the quota on GCP.”
Railway pays Google multiple millions of dollars a year. In return it got networking blips, an Artifact Registry quota throttled to nothing and a terms change that raised its costs 20% without warning. During Friday’s outage the Googlers who promised support “day or night” sent an out-of-office reply. Railway is moving to its own bare metal in 2024, and Google keeps calling the kernel bug “not reproducible.”