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by nik736 1049 days ago
A Google Cloud region in France was also unavailable for months (or still is?) due to flooding/electricity. But no one is talking about it.
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Didn't that happen from someone leaving a sink on or something, causing flooding and then the UPS batteries to short and explode?

I was there when someone at AWS accidentally unplugged an entire region.

Shit happens, it doesn't matter where it's hosted. People act like the cloud is infallible or something. You're literally sending lightning bolts worth of electricity through bricks of metal. Anything can happen.