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, and Bare Metal Solutions) due to a cooling failure in a single datacenter within the europe-west4-a zone. The incident highlights concerns about transparency in cloud resilience, as the outage stemmed from an upstream electrical fault and exposed single-datacenter dependencies despite recommendations for multi-zone workload distribution.