Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes
Google Cloud experienced a 15-hour outage due to a cooling failure in its europe-west4-a zone, affecting three services. The incident highlights the importance of understanding hyperscalers' resilience regimes and the potential for single-datacenter dependencies. The outage demonstrates that not all cloudy resilience promises are created equal, and organizations need to dig into clouds' promises of resilience.
- ▪Google Cloud's europe-west4-a zone experienced a 15-hour outage due to a cooling failure.
- ▪The outage affected three services: VMware Engine, NetApp Volumes, and Bare Metal Solutions.
- ▪The incident was caused by an electrical fault on the utility grid upstream of the datacenter.
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