[mirashii]

That it wasn’t down for you does not mean it wasn’t down for others or even almost everyone. Certainly, Google wouldn’t have listed the services as having an outage if nobody was impacted. You can’t extrapolate from “works for me” to “it must have been working for everyone”.

[ikiris]

Dude, I literally was an SRE there. I'm well aware of how this stuff works.

If some of those things listed had actual widespread outages, it would have been much much worse.

[solardev]

I don't understand your argument? Wasn't GCP's own status page calling them outages? Some of our upstream providers (who use GCP) were definitely affected and down.

As a former SRE there, is "widespread outage" a specific, special kind of classification that's not obvious to the public just by looking at the status page...? Or what do you mean?