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Google Cloud faces outages in India after fire

By Startup Enthusiast · 10 June 2026

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Google Cloud provides cloud infrastructure for startups and enterprises across India

A blaze at an external data centre led to network problems in Delhi, Chennai, and Mumbai on June 9, 2026

Traffic was rerouted but customers faced slow connections as demand outstripped supply

Google Cloud had intermittent latency and packet loss for Indian customers starting June 9, 2026.
A fire at a third-party data centre forced an emergency shutdown of networking equipment.
The outage affected Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai, and nearby areas.
Emergency power shutdown isolated a non-compute local Point of Presence in Delhi, cutting metro network capacity.
Traffic was rerouted from the affected facility, causing hybrid connectivity customers to see latency spikes.
Demand exceeded available capacity across Indian metros and regional ISPs, making the problem worse.
Google had no workaround and was working on traffic mitigation and Internet Edge peering augmentation.

Similar outages by AWS in December 2025 and Cloudflare in November 2025 disrupted major platforms globally.
The incident shows how a single data centre fire can affect cloud services across multiple Indian cities.

Google Cloud serves startups, enterprises, and digital platforms including streaming, ecommerce, fintech, SaaS, gaming, and food delivery.
The primary impact zone was the Delhi cloud region known as asia-south2.
Competitors in this space include Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services.

Google was working on traffic mitigation measures and Internet Edge peering augmentation to fix the issue.