A Google Cloud Paris outage in late April had all the ingredients in a city known for its love of drama: Fire, flooding, rubble, soot contamination, a fire suppression system running out of water in France’s premier co-location facility; a rapidly cascading global services failure…
Needless to say however, a localised incident should not trigger the global failure of mission-critical services from a cloud hyperscaler. What, exactly, happened and what lessons have been learned?
The Stack revisited the incident…
