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0 pointspjc502y ago0 comments

I'm not sure what the disk encryption story is in Google Cloud but I'd rather it didn't end up on Ebay. Mind you, "flooded" covers a wide range of possibilities and a surprisingly small amount of water ingress would trip a breaker while leaving the racks in good order.

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briffle2y ago

All data in encrypted at rest, and all hard drives are destroyed on site.

antonvs2y ago

> a surprisingly small amount of water ingress would trip a breaker while leaving the racks in good order.

If that were the case they wouldn't be saying "There is no current ETA for recovery," and "it is expected to be an extended outage. Customers are advised to failover to other regions."

CydeWeys2y ago

There's a lot more to a datacenter building than just the servers sitting on racks. In particular here there was a fire in the power-serving infrastructure (caused by the flood presumably). So nearly all of those servers could be totally fine, just off, but if the power distribution network in the building is literally fried, that's gonna take a long time to fix.

Xylakant2y ago

Starting up a cloud region after a total shutdown is likely an untested procedure with no well known timeframe, even if the hardware is ok.

dannyw2y ago

If you're in the business of being a massive cloud provider, hopefully restarting a region is not an untested procedure for you.

You could always test this in a live environment before a region becomes open to customers.

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packetslave2y ago

Having (for example) 6 inches of water in your 115kV switch room is a small-scale problem that can cause a large-scale outage.

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