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Google Cloud region currently down due to water intrusion

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Re: Google Cloud region currently down due to water intrusion

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Post by gst »

rickette wrote: post #3

Anyone know how this could affect multiple zones? "Customers can failover to zones in other regions". Unless a whole area got flooded.

There's an interesting Twitter thread about that topic here: https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1651256082424012806

Based on that thread it sounds like only AWS guarantees that their AZs are in physically separate DCs, while for Google and Microsoft AZs could be in separate buildings of the same DC facility.

Re: Google Cloud region currently down due to water intrusion

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Post by packetslave »

gst wrote: post #5
rickette wrote: post #3

Anyone know how this could affect multiple zones? "Customers can failover to zones in other regions". Unless a whole area got flooded.

There's an interesting Twitter thread about that topic here: https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1651256082424012806 Based on that thread it sounds like only AWS guarantees that their AZs are in physically separate DCs, while for Google and Microsoft AZs could be in separate buildings of the same DC facility.

Or even in the same building, just with a different power/network domain.
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