•A fire at a third-party data center in Delhi on June 9th caused an emergency power shutdown, impacting Google Cloud's network capacity in India.
•Customers in Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, and surrounding regions have experienced elevated latency and potential packet loss for over a week.
•Google Cloud is implementing traffic mitigations, augmenting backbone capacity in Delhi, and improving regional peering in Chennai to restore full service.
•Iranian strikes have reportedly caused two AWS availability zones in Dubai and Bahrain to become 'hard down' and unavailable for an extended duration.
•Internal AWS communications advised employees to deprioritize these regions and assist customers with migration due to 'meaningful damage' targeting economic infrastructure.
•This unprecedented event highlights the critical need for robust multi-region and advanced disaster recovery strategies, even for the most resilient cloud providers.
•A fire at a third-party data center in Delhi on June 9th caused an emergency power shutdown, impacting Google Cloud's network capacity in India.
•Customers in Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, and surrounding regions have experienced elevated latency and potential packet loss for over a week.
•Google Cloud is implementing traffic mitigations, augmenting backbone capacity in Delhi, and improving regional peering in Chennai to restore full service.
•Iranian strikes have reportedly caused two AWS availability zones in Dubai and Bahrain to become 'hard down' and unavailable for an extended duration.
•Internal AWS communications advised employees to deprioritize these regions and assist customers with migration due to 'meaningful damage' targeting economic infrastructure.
•This unprecedented event highlights the critical need for robust multi-region and advanced disaster recovery strategies, even for the most resilient cloud providers.