https://cloud.google.com/kubernetes-engine/docs/release-note... google did release an update to gcp k8s today, seemingly shortly before the outage

I doubt gcloud would be affected by an aws-specific cni. Unless maybe enough AWS users have a GCP backup environment that they flipped on all at once, but it seems unlikely

good point. I took that as simply the example that they had in front of them but a generic issue.