Most of our GCE instances are in us-central1 and us-west1, and we saw some intermittently failing health checks and intermittent connectivity to non-GCP resources. Several of my colleagues on the US east coast reported being unable to access their GSuite accounts, but the folks on the US west coast and in eastern Europe seemed to be working fine. In fact, other than watching the Google status updates and our own monitoring systems, most of the conversation was about the fact that Google+ apparently still exists. :P

I don't want to take away from anyone that suffered a significant outage, but the impact did seem to depend on which region you were in, and Google explicitly stated as much in their blog post.

Ya, I feel like they didn't really even acknowledge that some regions were completely down for hours. I have a GKE cluster in us-west-2 (Los Angeles) and it was 100% completely inaccessible from the public web, the google cloud console and the google cloud cli.

There was no 'increased latency' and 'partial' outages. It was completely failed for nearly 4 hours. Google console showed a friendly message that I have not yet setup my first GKE cluster and to click here to try it out. They even offered me a $300 credit for first time use.