Best practices for handling cloud reliability incidents

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