Memcache, an App Engine service, went down for two hours, causing downtime and latency for two other services
One of Google’s cloud services went down for nearly two hours Monday across all regions, causing another service to also go down completely and another to experience errors and higher latency as a result. Ironically, the cause was a problem in the system designed to keep the service from falling over.
The service that went down in the afternoon US Pacific time was Memcache – part of App Engine, Google’s Platform-as-a-Service, which provides a platform and services for developers to build applications without worrying about managing the underlying infrastructure.
