Overview
- A fire at an unnamed third‑party colocation site caused an emergency power shutdown that isolated a non‑compute Point of Presence (PoP) serving the Delhi cloud region, reducing local network capacity.
- Network traffic originating from Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and nearby metros experienced elevated latency and packet loss, with the asia‑south2 (Delhi) region most affected.
- Google Cloud rerouted significant traffic to other PoPs and is evaluating Internet Edge peering and other capacity measures, but the company says the affected facility is not yet fully restored.
- Customers using hybrid connectivity and certain virtual private cloud (VPC) setups saw non‑optimal routing and intermittent latency spikes, and Google warns there is no immediate workaround.
- The outage highlights risks from dependence on third‑party facilities and cloud networking, and could disrupt streaming, fintech, ecommerce and other services that rely on Google Cloud while the site is repaired.