Post-Mortem for Google Compute Engine’s Global Outage on April 11
&gt; . Internal monitors generated dozens of alerts in the seconds after the traffic loss became visible at 19:08 ... revert the most recent configuration changes ... the time from detection to decision to revert to the end of the outage was thus just 18 minutes.<p>It&#x27;s certainly good that they detected it as fast as they did.  But I wonder if the fix time could be improved upon?  Was the majority of that time spent discussing the corrective action to be taken?  Or does it take that much time to replicate the fix?