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Google Cloud outage highlights infrastructure resilience lessons
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Fusion42 · 14 November 2026 · Fusion42 review
Google Cloud's London availability zone experienced a six-hour outage due to a voltage-sensing design flaw and PLC misconfiguration, impacting 38 products and highlighting weaknesses in cloud infrastructure resilience, particularly around power redundancy and service concentration within zones. Experts recommend companies maintain multiple cloud regions, test under real conditions, and build network and power diversity to prevent similar disruptions.
This Wire brief sits within Fusion42's coverage of Cloud Infrastructure, and 2 sources have reported it between 12 Nov 2026 and 14 Nov 2026.
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You must assume your cloud backups share hidden dependencies that can fail together and put your core systems at risk. Building real recovery routes and testing them during business hours keeps your systems live when others go dark.
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2 sources · first reported 12 Nov 2026 · latest 14 Nov 2026
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