"Firebase Data Connect unavailable due to a known Google Cloud global outage"
While the Google Cloud status page https://status.cloud.google.com/ says "No major incidents" and everything is green. So Google Cloud know there is an outage but just deem it not major enough to show it.
Edit to add: within 10 minutes of this post Google updated their status page. More curiously the Firebase page I linked to has been edited to remove mention of Google Cloud in the status and now says "Firebase Data Connect is currently experiencing a service disruption. Please check back for status. ".
On the other side of this, Firebase probably doesn't have money at stake making the update
(n.b. as much as Google in aggregate is evil, they're smart evil. You can't avoid execs approving every outage because checks without some paper trail, and execs don't want to approve every outage, you'd have to rely on too many engineers and sales people, even as ex-employees, to keep it a secret. disclaimer: xoogler)
(EDIT: for posterity, we're discussing a "overall status" thing with a huge refresh button, right above a huge table chockful of orange triangles that indicate "One or more regions affected" - even when the "overall status" was green, the table was still full of orange and visible immediately underneath. My point being, you gotta suppose a wholeeee bunch of stuff to get to the point there was ever info suppressed, much less suppressed intentionally to avoid cutting checks)
* https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/facebook-blames-m...
At least some of the information has to be.
The weird part is that it took them almost an full hour to update it.
No major incident as of “ Last updated time: 12 Jun 2025, 11:48 PDT”
EDIT: Looks like it has been updated now (6:49 PM UTC)
say it's not so!
Seems obvious.
Thanks for letting me know about emailing the mods, refreshingly explicit to send email.
Facebook, Reddit and Hacker News is still up, but thats about it
