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There’s no way this was automated or silent.

The only reasonable explanation is Railway lost control of their estate and something was happening that warranted a group of humans to decide flipping the kill switch was the best of a set of bad alternatives.

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You’re giving Google far more credit than they’ve earned.

It's almost certainly one of those Android Store related checks or YouTube account checks. It's why it's best to disable login for the services you don't want your staff messing with on Google Workspace.

you can go on google cloud subreddit and watch horror stories

i actually built a good plan out of those horror stories for my companies.

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