Hacker News — 2026-05-20#

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Railway Blocked by Google Cloud Platform-as-a-service Railway had their entire GCP production account automatically suspended by Google without warning, taking down their API, dashboard, and network control plane for eight hours. The real kicker is the cascading failure: because Railway’s edge proxies lost their routing cache, workloads hosted on AWS and bare metal also went dark, turning a single-provider suspension into a multi-cloud total blackout. It’s a brutal reminder that multi-cloud architecture is just an expensive buzzword if your control plane introduces a single point of failure.