How did Twingate stay up when the cloud broke?

On June 12, 2025, a major Google Cloud outage disrupted numerous online services, but Twingate remained unaffected due to its robust reliability practices and architecture. Twingate's journey towards achieving its over 99.99% uptime involved learning from past outages and implementing a distributed, multi-region, and independent operations approach, which contrasts with the conventional single-cloud or basic multi-cloud strategies. This resilience is underpinned by proactive disaster drills, smart traffic segmentation, database resilience, and innovative token management that ensures uninterrupted service even during control plane failures. Twingate's commitment to reliability is deeply embedded in its engineering culture, emphasizing the need for decentralized control and direct communication paths, which enhance survivability in cloud environments. This approach not only mitigates the impact of outages but also enables secure, continuous operation for users worldwide, with Twingate offering tools and resources to help other organizations build similarly resilient systems.