[tango24]

Hmm, this comment says it’s been happening for hours (below). Maybe their status page isn’t accurate

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17552693

[jagthebeetle]

I'd wait for further details from the status page, but as a GCP employee (for whatever that claim's worth on the internet), I'm not seeing evidence of an issue earlier than 12:15 PDT.

[partiallypro]

I'm sure it was a cascading event, similar to the one Amazon had yesterday on their own site. Started small until it snowballed and effected everyone.