Incident affecting Google cloud in Europe-west9 (status.cloud.google.com) 11 points by whytai 3y ago ↗ HN
[–] akhayam 3y ago ↗ Water intrusion?Is it raining a lot in Paris? [–] renchap 3y ago ↗ 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. [–] akhayam 3y ago ↗ Yes, there seems to be a design flaw here. There should be no SPOF in region design.
[–] renchap 3y ago ↗ 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. [–] akhayam 3y ago ↗ Yes, there seems to be a design flaw here. There should be no SPOF in region design.
[–] akhayam 3y ago ↗ Yes, there seems to be a design flaw here. There should be no SPOF in region design.
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 21.9 ms ] threadIs it raining a lot 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.