Google has released more details this week on what caused its Google App Engine outage earlier this month. The Aug. 11 outage affected 37 percent of applications hosted in its US-Central region, according to the incident report.
Google said that the outage lasted just under two hours in the afternoon (local time). Almost half of those affected, 18 percent of apps hosted in the region overall, experienced error rates between 10 and 50 percent, while 14 percent experienced error rates between one and 10 percent. Three percent had error rates higher than 50 percent.
