Google Cloud's US-East load balancers are lousy with latency

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Google Cloud's US-East load balancers are lousy with latency
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Monday morning rush job, anyone? Asking 'cos there's no ETA for a fix other than moving to another region

At the thoroughly indecent time of 05:56 AM on Sunday, Pacific time, Googlean incident it called"Cloud L2 overload in us-east4 causing harm in us-east4 & nearby regions" and ascribed the cause to"an issue with Cloud Load Balancing."

Google Cloud has three such regions: South Carolina hosts east1, North Virginia is home to east4, and Ohio is the site for east5. Confusingly, Google Cloud does not have an east2 or east3 region. At 07:56 the incident was renamed"Google Engineers are investigating high latency and elevated errors in US-East."

The issue has persisted ever since and kept that moniker, with Google listing South Carolina and Northern Virginia as the currently affected locations. Mitigation work had commenced by 11:41 AM, but at 21:34 Google's 11th status update on the incident still reported a diagnosis of"Higher latency and possibly elevated errors on customers' global L7 Load Balancers during US peak hours ."writes this story the clock has just tipped past 01:00 AM on the US East Coast. As workers arrive at their desks on Monday, greater inconvenience is to be expected.

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