Title is incorrect, this is not a general outage. There are two separate issues:<p>europe-west-9 (Paris) has been physically flooded with water somehow and is hard down. This is obviously bad if you're using the region in question, but has zero impact elsewhere. <a href="https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/dS9ps52MUnxQfyDGPfkY" rel="nofollow">https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/dS9ps52MUnxQfyDGPf...</a><p>There is a separate issue stopping <i>changes</i> to HTTP load balancers across most of GCP, but it has no impact on serving and they're rolling out a fix already. <a href="https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/uSjFxRvKBheLA4Zr5qHs#oKGDLmoneB3YgW79P7vm" rel="nofollow">https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/uSjFxRvKBheLA4Zr5q...</a>
Water intrusion in europe-west9-a has caused a multi-cluster failure and has led to an emergency shutdown of multiple zones. We expect general unavailability of the europe-west9 region<p><a href="https://twitter.com/GCP_Incidents" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/GCP_Incidents</a>
Water intrusion in europe-west9-a has caused a multi-cluster failure and has led to an emergency shutdown of multiple zones. We expect general unavailability of the europe-west9 region. There is no current ETA for recovery of operations in the europe-west9 region at this time, but it is expected to be an extended outage. Customers are advised to failover to other regions if they are impacted.
> Water intrusion in europe-west9-a<p>> We expect general unavailability of the europe-west9 region.<p>Why would emergency shutdown of a single AZ lead to general unavailability of a region? Isn't that the point of multiple AZs?<p>> There is no current ETA for recovery of operations in the europe-west9 region at this time, but it is expected to be an extended outage<p>yikes
It seems that there is a second issue due to a fire in a GlobalSwitch datacenter where Google host Edge cache locations (article in french):<p><a href="https://dcmag.fr/breve-un-depart-dincendie-dans-un-batiment-de-global-switch-a-clichy/" rel="nofollow">https://dcmag.fr/breve-un-depart-dincendie-dans-un-batiment-...</a>
Service Health Status: <a href="https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/dS9ps52MUnxQfyDGPfkY" rel="nofollow">https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/dS9ps52MUnxQfyDGPf...</a>
Looks like it is/was not only Europe. Today we had issues in the US too, and some other regions still affected as well (us-east1, asia-northeast1, asia-south1 & asia-southeast2)