This incident highlights the importance of decoupling critical infrastructure from centralized cloud providers to improve resiliency. Implementing a more robust multi-cloud or hybrid deployment strategy would effectively mitigate these single points of failure for services like FeeDelegator and Kaiascan in the future.
The resilience of the network during this GCP outage confirms the effectiveness of the decentralized architecture, even if the surrounding tooling experienced temporary downtime. It might be worth exploring a multi-region or multi-cloud failover strategy for the RPC endpoints to mitigate these single-provider dependency risks in the future.
This incident highlights the inherent risks of relying on centralized cloud providers for RPC and explorer infrastructure. It’s a strong reminder that we need to prioritize more robust multi-cloud or hybrid node deployments to ensure these critical access points remain resilient even when a single provider hits an availability snag.