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Fire burns Google Cloud India’s network, which remains slow a week later
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Summary
Google Cloud customers with resources in India have had to deal with elevated latency for several days, and there’s no end in sight. Per a Google status page, on June 9th “A fire at a third-party data center facility required an emergency power shutdown of networking equipment, isolating a non-compute local Point of Presence (POP) in Delhi and reducing available network capacity in the metro area.” That shutdown caused “intermittent periods of elevated latency and possible packet loss” for network traffic headed to Google Cloud from Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and surrounding areas. Google has implemented “traffic mitigations” that it says have improved performance “for some Cloud customers,” and is trying to arrange extra peering capacity. That work is ongoing, with the ads-and-cloud giant promising it is “further augmenting our Delhi backbone capacity” and hopes to have better news on Monday.