Google's Batteries Ran Out, Revolut Went Down #googlecloud #outage #programming
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Google's preliminary report says the grid dropped at the London data centre running europe-west2-b, both generator controllers failed, and the batteries ran out about seven minutes later. Google says most customers recovered by 1pm UK time, but Revolut didn't say it was back until 6:39pm.
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