Cloud reliability incident handling best practices
Cloud outages can range from global service disruptions to issues isolated to a specific region, zone, or even just your project, workload or application. If you suspect a Google Cloud Platform outage is impacting your services, we recommend you follow a structured “Verify→ Investigate→Report→Resolve→Review" workflow to resolve it. And before that outage occurs, you should also have prepared your environment for an eventual disruption by designing for failure, and actively practicing the steps you need to take to restore service.
In this blog, we summarize the key reliability incident handling best practices to help you design and practice your reliability incident response capabilities and minimize impact. Rather than an exhaustive guide, this is meant as a primer on only the most important practices for advisory purposes. Please note that we do not cover additional practices specific to security incidents here.
Beyond the base steps covered here, you may want to...
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