One Zone Lost Power and Half the UK Went Down: Building MERN Apps That Survive It
On Monday morning, around 7am London time, a power event hit one zone of Google Cloud's London region. Not the whole region. One zone out of three. And for the next eight hours, Revolut card payments
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Abhinav Sharma
Founder of Impact Gate. See who breaks before you change an API.
The zonal-defaults point is the sneaky one for a zonal GKE cluster or a single VM. Cloud Run cuts the other way though: per Google's resource model docs, regional services replicate across zones automatically, so a default deploy is already multi-zone.