Incident affecting Google cloud in Europe-west9

#1

Post by whytai » Wed, Apr 26, 2023, 6:31 AM UTC

Incident affecting Google cloud in Europe-west9
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Re: Incident affecting Google cloud in Europe-west9

#2

Post by akhayam » Wed, Apr 26, 2023, 6:57 AM UTC

Water intrusion?

Is it raining a lot in Paris?

Re: Incident affecting Google cloud in Europe-west9

#3

Post by renchap » Wed, Apr 26, 2023, 8:58 AM UTC

akhayam wrote: post #2

Water intrusion? Is it raining a lot in Paris?

From the information I gathered, this is an incident in the GlobalSwitch datacenter in Paris.

The cooling system leaked, and this started a fire in an electrical room.

The big issue here is that one Datacenter failure brought the whole region down, this is very abnormal.

Re: Incident affecting Google cloud in Europe-west9

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Post by akhayam » Wed, Apr 26, 2023, 3:25 PM UTC

renchap wrote: post #3

akhayam wrote: post #2

Water intrusion? Is it raining a lot in Paris?

From the information I gathered, this is an incident in the GlobalSwitch datacenter in Paris. The cooling system leaked, and this started a fire in an electrical room. The big issue here is that one Datacenter failure brought the whole region down, this is very abnormal.

Yes, there seems to be a design flaw here. There should be no SPOF in region design.