Google Cloud London outage: Continuity lessons for IT leaders

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<p>On 20 October, <a href="https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366652539/Google-Cloud-power-event-knocks-out-UK-banks-courts-and-couriers">a power event at the datacentre</a> hosting Google Cloud’s europe-west2-b zone took that zone offline. It is one of three availability zones in Google’s London region, designed to allow the others to keep running if one experiences a fault. Yet Revolut, HSBC, DPD and Royal Mail were among the organisations reported to have experienced disruption, and critically, the video platform used for remote court hearings in England and Wales also went…

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