That historic heat wave in the UK? It knocked out Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud after cooling systems failed in their data centers. To prevent permanent damage to hardware components and thus create a prolonged outage, both Google and Oracle have shut down equipment, leading to outages in their cloud services. Both companies report that they do not expect any further impact as they work to bring cooling systems back online.
There’s a second-order effect I didn’t immediately consider. Heatwave in the UK shuts down their cloud. And it’s second order effects that are what to consider. Anticipating them is a valuable skill.
Stay cool out there.
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