5 things Railway’s 8 hour outage should change about how you think about redundancy (opens in new tab)

Railway runs on Google Cloud, AWS, and its own metal. So when I first saw that Railway was down for hours, my first thought was probably the same as yours. "How does a multi cloud platform go dark like that?" Then I read the incident report, the Hacker News discussion, and the follow up coverage. And the real lesson is uncomfortable. This was not really a cloud outage. The servers did not all die. AWS did not die. Railway Metal did not die. Google Cloud infrastructure itself did not have to c...