October outage caused by bad PLC config exposed at a time maintenance work reduced resilience Google Cloud has revealed that the cause of the October 20 outage in its europe west 2 b availability zone was a ‘misconfiguration of its systems that meant its emergency generators didnt start. The outage at the London facility caused service interruptions at outfits including Lloyds, HSBC, Royal Mail, and Revolut. In a November 4 update to its service status page, Google explained what went...
