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The Catch-22 That Broke the Internet

Published: June 10, 2019, 4:31 p.m.

Five days ago, the internet had a conniption. In broad patches around the globe, YouTube sputtered. Shopify stores shut down. Snapchat blinked out. And millions of people couldn\u2019t access their Gmail accounts. The disruptions all stemmed from Google Cloud, which suffered an prolonged outage\u2014which also prevented Google engineers from pushing a fix.