Not everything is Google's fault, but most things are. The author of the text, Railway, has had a series of issues with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) products, including softlocks in rare cases under resource pressure, arbitrary quota changes, and unreliable customer support. Despite escalating these issues to GCP, Railway found that they were unable to get satisfactory responses or resolutions. As a result, Railway built their own networking stack and registry product to avoid these issues. However, after experiencing another issue with Google Cloud, Railway decided to sunset all Google Cloud services and move to bare metal instances in 2024. The latest incident involved a box dropping offline due to a Google restart, but despite manual failover efforts, the issue persisted, leading Railway to conclude that there is a potentially fatal interaction in userspace-to-kernel memory transfer on GCP guests that causes softlocks in rare cases under resource pressure.