Google Cloud outage shows it's still hard to understand hyperscalers' real resilience regimes

Google Cloud experienced a 15-hour outage affecting three services (VMware Engine, NetApp Volumes, Bare Metal Solutions) in its europe-west4-a zone due to a cooling failure caused by an upstream electrical fault. The incident reveals that some Google Cloud managed services depend on a single discrete datacenter within a zone, creating hidden single-points-of-failure that contradict customer assumptions about multi-zone resilience.

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