Incident Report: Railway Blocked by Google Cloud [resolved]
On May 19, 2026, Railway suffered a service outage starting at 22:23 UTC, caused by a Google Cloud networking issue that blocked traffic to Railway's infrastructure. The incident impacted deployments, database connections, and other core services. Railway's status page reported the issue at 22:23 UTC, with updates at 22:42, 23:00, and 23:23 UTC, before marking the incident as resolved at 00:23 UTC on May 20. The total duration was approximately 2 hours. Railway identified the root cause as a Google Cloud networking problem and stated they were working with Google to prevent recurrence. No data loss was reported, but users experienced service unavailability during the window.
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