The word cloud often gives businesses a false sense of invincibility. Many assume that once systems move to AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud, outages become someone else’s problem. After all, cloud platforms promise high availability, redundancy, and scalability. Yet outages still happen and often in dramatic, business-disrupting ways. From e-commerce downtime to SaaS platform crashes, “the cloud” regularly reminds organizations that technology alone does not guarantee reliability. So why do cloud servers still go down? The answer usually isn’t the provider’s infrastructure. It’s operational mistakes made by the people designing, …

No one can forget a 403 error in Google Cloud. The resource in question was validated to be present, and the permissions seemed to be set up correctly. However, met with a 403 Permission Denied message. If you’ve ever been there, you know how annoying this error can be.  So let’s slow this down and talk about what a 403 error really means, why it keeps popping up, and how to usually fix it in the real world. What a 403 Error in Google Cloud Actually Means ? A 403 …