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When datacenters lose power, generators should kick in. That didn’t happen for Google in London
October outage caused by bad PLC config exposed at a time maintenance work reduced resilience Google Cloud has revealed that the cause of the October 20 outage in its europe-west-2-b availability zone was a ‘misconfiguration’ of its…
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Google Cloud disclosed that the October 20 outage affecting its europe‑west‑2‑b availability zone stemmed from a misconfiguration in a programmable logic controller, which prevented the emergency generators from starting. The fault was exposed while scheduled maintenance work had already lowered the zone’s resilience.
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