Google Cloud experiences outage after power and cooling failure in Netherlands data center
Issues lasted for almost 15 hours
Issues lasted for almost 15 hours
Google and others impacted by apparent lithium battery fire
Fire saw emergency power shutdown at the facility
The cause of the issue is not yet known
One of those is worse than the others
Impacted Google Cloud's US-East5 region
Caused by power failure and cooling issue
Confidential Computing instances now generally available
Service keeps returning and then crashing
Details of outage emerge
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New CEO Yaccarino smooths over payment spat
But is not down in full-blown outage
Who could have seen this coming?
Will open new data centers in Paris, as part of major strategic play
Search giant investigating what went wrong, will be auditing all cooling systems globally
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Google Cloud, OVHcloud impacted, while AWS, Azure, and LinkedIn may have been affected
After several major outages at Mizuho Financial Group last year
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Spend money (via acquisitions and staff cuts) to make money
More European sovereign clouds powered by US tech
Google gives T-Systems control over some German GCP infrastructure
Newly opened, newly down
It's unclear how widespread the issue is