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How large is the flood? How far away are these zones?
It happened at GlobalSwitch Clichy, near Paris. From what I gathered from a french forum[1], it started with a flood and then a fire. No rooms have been affected, apparently. [1]: https://lafibre.info/datacenter/incendie-maitrise-globalswit...
Water intrusion in europe-west9-a has caused a multi-cluster failure and has led to an emergency shutdown of multiple zones. We expect general unavailability of the europe-west9 region https://twitter.com/GCP_Incidents
Water intrusion in europe-west9-a has caused a multi-cluster failure and has led to an emergency shutdown of multiple zones. We expect general unavailability of the europe-west9 region https://twitter.com/GCP_Incidents
But europe-west9-a is only one zone, why does the whole region fall over as a consequence?
https://dcmag.fr/breve-un-depart-dincendie-dans-un-batiment-...
> We expect general unavailability of the europe-west9 region.
Why would emergency shutdown of a single AZ lead to general unavailability of a region? Isn't that the point of multiple AZs?
> There is no current ETA for recovery of operations in the europe-west9 region at this time, but it is expected to be an extended outage
yikes
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But europe-west9-a is only one zone, why does the whole region fall over as a consequence?
Probably some dependencies they did not plan for
Someone as big as Google ought to have been practicing this automatically every week in a staging environment, and probably at least annually in production.
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At least Paris is red, what's the last time you saw more than a green dot with a little exclamation mark on the AWS status page?
I was referring to how things being “back to normal except for Paris” is a common occurrence here in Europe
> Water intrusion in europe-west9-a > We expect general unavailability of the europe-west9 region. Why would emergency shutdown of a single AZ lead to general unavailability of a region? Isn't that the point of multiple AZs? > There is no current ETA for recovery of operations in the europe-west9 region at this time, but it is expected to be an extended outage yikes
If so, that's ... not good.
have i been watching too much espionage media?