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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by cube00 on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @10:20PM (#48217024)
> (What did the account manager say exactly?)

I doubt we'll ever know, especially if it makes Google look negligent (ie. not reaching out to the customer first before restricting their production account)

Whatever the account manager said didn't inspire confidence that this wouldn't happen again.

Finally, we are in planning to remove Google Cloud services from our data plane’s hot path, and keeping them only for secondary/failover.

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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by neya on Wednesday May 20, 2026 @10:53PM (#48217262)
> Whatever the account manager said didn't inspire confidence that this wouldn't happen again.

Or..they couldn't remain compliant with one of the strictest cloud vendors' policies.

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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by scott_w on Thursday May 21, 2026 @01:33AM (#48218290)
Yet their account was restored so clearly GCP themselves disagree with you.
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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by neya on Thursday May 21, 2026 @01:35AM (#48218303)
Or they fixed the issue to remain compliant so GCP would restore access. Again, I know it's fashionable to hate on Google here, but there are always 2 sides to every story.
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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by scott_w on Thursday May 21, 2026 @06:02AM (#48220200)
That’s not what you just claimed. I’ve quoted you below:

> Or..they couldn't remain compliant with one of the strictest cloud vendors' policies.

Which is it? They can comply or they can’t? Both sides can’t be true at the same time.

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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by neya on Thursday May 21, 2026 @12:41PM (#48225575)
Just saying either way is possible unless both sides of the story are out in the open. You seem to start from a point of view of malice, I'm simply suggesting possible alternatives.
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Re:Railway GCP Account Suspension Incident Report by scott_w on Friday May 22, 2026 @10:26AM (#48236325)
Except one way isn’t possible because the facts and logic tell you it’s not.

Being open minded is good but don’t keep it so open your brain leaks out.

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