Google Cloud outage shows it’s still hard to understand hyperscalers’ real resilience regimes

Google Cloud last week experienced an outage that analysts say demonstrates that not all promises of cloudy resilience are created equal. Google’s incident report explained that three services – the VMware Engine (GCVE), NetApp Volumes, and Bare Metal Solutions (BMS) – experienced a 15-hour outage due to a cooling failure in its europe-west4-a zone. The report includes the following detail: “The datacenter serving europe-west4-a for GCVE, BMS, and NetApp has experienced a power failure, which su