Google Cloud Suffers India Outage After Fire at Third-Party Facility

Google Cloud reported intermittent network disruptions in India after a fire at a third-party data centre triggered an emergency shutdown of networking equipment. The incident affected traffic from Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and nearby regions, causing elevated latency, packet loss and reduced network capacity. Google said it rerouted traffic to other facilities and continued restoration efforts, highlighting the risks of outages at external infrastructure providers.