Google Cloud Suspends Railway's Production Account, Causing Eight-Hour Platform-Wide Outage

Google Cloud's automated systems suspended Railway's production account without notice, triggering an eight-hour platform-wide outage affecting 3 million users. The cascade took down workloads across all providers including AWS and bare metal because Railway's control plane was hosted on GCP. Railway is demoting GCP to backup-only status. By Steef-Jan Wiggers