I have seen a report where an intermittent issue in Java GCS IO have caused error messages without sufficient details, see: BEAM-8173. In addition to BEAM-8173 we should also check whether GCS IO attempts to retry on all retriable status codes [1], and if not - add retries.
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/json_api/v1/status-codes#http-status-and-error-codes
cc: [~chamikara]
Imported from Jira BEAM-8268. Original Jira may contain additional context.
Reported by: tvalentyn.