Google's robo-CTRL-ALT-DEL failed, hung networks and Compute Engine for 90 minutes

And then along came a good old flesh and blood human!

Chalk up another one for good old humans: Google's admitted that an automation failure was the root cause of a 93-minute outage of its Compute Engine in the us-central1 and europe-west3 zones of its cloud on January 18th, 2018."