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Google takes down the internet! (The Standup)

Google takes down the internet! (The Standup)

Source: YouTube · The PrimeTime · published Jul 17, 2025 · 59:19

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The Google Cloud outage was caused by a simple null pointer error that crashed their management plane 2:07.

Key Takeaways:
• The Google Cloud outage occurred when code containing an unchecked null pointer was deployed, causing the management plane to crash across all regions 2:07-2:22
• The incident is ironic since Google operates OSS fuzz, a project specifically designed to find such memory corruption vulnerabilities 3:22
• Basic fuzzing would have likely detected this error before deployment, suggesting inadequate testing procedures 8:30
• The outage highlighted the internet's hidden dependencies on major cloud providers, causing cascading failures across many services 11:00
• Companies struggle with understanding their full dependency chains, making risk assessment difficult 17:00

This incident demonstrates how even basic programming errors can cause widespread disruption when they occur in critical infrastructure.

Sources:

  • 2:07 Explanation of Google Cloud null pointer error
  • 3:22 Discussion about OSS fuzz project irony
  • 8:30 Explanation of how fuzzing would have caught the error
  • 11:00 Impact of the outage on internet services
  • 17:00 Discussion about dependency management challenges

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Hello everyone and welcome to Stand Up. >> I have to step away for a second. Shut up. >> It doesn't have to be exact. >> Classic Prime moment, dude. >> Yep. >> Hey. Hi. Hey everybody. >> Uh there is a very high chance I have no idea what we're talking about. >> There's 100% chance I have no idea. >> The Google cloud service outage last week. >> Okay, so you do >> this isn't really a security thing, but that's okay. >> Did you Wait, you made a video on this? What are you talking about? That doesn't mean anything. >> It's not security. >> I made a video on Nintendo Switch. >> What? >> Yeah, it's not security. >> We're talking about I did make a video on it. Just throwing that out there. I just know I made a little quick video on it, but I have actually good. Let's do it. Let's go. >> We got …