Google Cloud goes down, takes Cloudflare and its customers with it

UPDATED Google Cloud went down hard on Thursday, and took Cloudflare and some of its customers with it.

Google published its first status update 11:46 Pacific Daylight Time (PDT) when it reported over 40 of its locations and 26 services were “experiencing impact due to Identity and Access Management Service Issue.”

Google’s Cloud Console was among the afflicted services, meaning users couldn’t log in to figure out why other impacted services like Cloud Storage and Cloud SQL weren’t working.

At 12:30 PT, Google posted news that the incident was over, other than in the us-central1 region, which runs out of facilities in Iowa.

But at 12:41 the company admitted “customers are still experiencing varying degrees of impact on individual google cloud products.”

Google assured customers it’s figured out what went wrong and that “All the respective engineering teams are actively engaged and working ...