<story><title>Google Cloud Europe service disruption</title><url>https://status.cloud.google.com/regional/europe</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rippercushions</author><text>Title is incorrect, this is not a general outage.  There are two separate issues:&lt;p&gt;europe-west-9 (Paris) has been physically flooded with water somehow and is hard down. This is obviously bad if you&amp;#x27;re using the region in question, but has zero impact elsewhere. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;status.cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;incidents&amp;#x2F;dS9ps52MUnxQfyDGPfkY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;status.cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;incidents&amp;#x2F;dS9ps52MUnxQfyDGPf...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is a separate issue stopping &lt;i&gt;changes&lt;/i&gt; to HTTP load balancers across most of GCP, but it has no impact on serving and they&amp;#x27;re rolling out a fix already. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;status.cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;incidents&amp;#x2F;uSjFxRvKBheLA4Zr5qHs#oKGDLmoneB3YgW79P7vm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;status.cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;incidents&amp;#x2F;uSjFxRvKBheLA4Zr5q...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>tinco</author><text>So this is probably too soon, thoughts and prayers for the datacenter operators and staff out there, but are they going to auction off the flooded hardware? Trying to restore a flooded Google rack sounds like a super fun project.&lt;p&gt;Anyone experience with losing an entire DC to flooding?&lt;p&gt;edit: I just Googled it (lol) and this DC has to be brand spanking new (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;infrastructure&amp;#x2F;google-cloud-region-in-paris-france-now-open&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;blog&amp;#x2F;products&amp;#x2F;infrastructure&amp;#x2F;google...&lt;/a&gt;), apparently they just opened it last June. Google must be livid with the contractors who built the place for it to get flooded so soon.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Cloud Europe service disruption</title><url>https://status.cloud.google.com/regional/europe</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rippercushions</author><text>Title is incorrect, this is not a general outage.  There are two separate issues:&lt;p&gt;europe-west-9 (Paris) has been physically flooded with water somehow and is hard down. This is obviously bad if you&amp;#x27;re using the region in question, but has zero impact elsewhere. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;status.cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;incidents&amp;#x2F;dS9ps52MUnxQfyDGPfkY&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;status.cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;incidents&amp;#x2F;dS9ps52MUnxQfyDGPf...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is a separate issue stopping &lt;i&gt;changes&lt;/i&gt; to HTTP load balancers across most of GCP, but it has no impact on serving and they&amp;#x27;re rolling out a fix already. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;status.cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;incidents&amp;#x2F;uSjFxRvKBheLA4Zr5qHs#oKGDLmoneB3YgW79P7vm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;status.cloud.google.com&amp;#x2F;incidents&amp;#x2F;uSjFxRvKBheLA4Zr5q...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>londons_explore</author><text>&amp;gt; There is a separate issue stopping changes to HTTP load balancers across most of GCP&lt;p&gt;Is it me, or has Google had issues with pushing changes to load balancers pretty much every few months for the past decade?   Even before GCP launched, people here on HN sometimes said an outage was extended because load balancer configs couldn&amp;#x27;t be changed.&lt;p&gt;Have they not considered just redesigning their config push mechanism...</text></comment>