After about 8 hours, a random Google support tech said it was because we were mining bitcoin, which was laughably untrue. We had CPU usage graphs and logs for the whole time and there was no spike. At around 12 hours, they turned it back on, said it was "misconfiguration of our abuse detection" and gave us like $100 in credit.
Absurd. Say what you will about AWS, they would never do that to a customer without a rep reaching out to you first. I have not trusted GCP since.
Remember knowledge cards? Prior to the LLM AI revolution, they had an extraordinarily crappy AI system digest the entire internet to figure out the wrong facts about stuff and then present it to users as solid truth, with no human review and no way to report inaccuracies.
They just don't care. If the task requires a person to look at a thing and tell if it's right, they only do that for like 5 examples and then train a classifier, then deploy said classifier without thinking twice because "at internet scale" or whatever crap.
They need to tell Railway and Railway needs to tell us, or Railway can tell us that Google is refusing to tell them.
Either way, we need to hear about this from Railway.
Now the lawyers are huddling. IMO there won't be a lot more said publicly by either side, at least until any threat of lawsuits for damages is settled.
The moment GCP shut off without any forewarning, its done deal, no need to ask any further questions.
Giving reasons is putting accountability on Google and they don't want that.