Comment by kune

5 hours ago

From the documentation of the Google Cloud Platform.

> To protect against the loss of an entire region due to natural disaster, have a disaster recovery plan and know how to bring up your application in the unlikely event that your primary region is lost.

> The regions Stockholm, Osaka, and Montreal have three zones housed in one or two physical data centers.

See here: https://docs.cloud.google.com/docs/geography-and-regions

2023 europe-west9 incident: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/water-leak-at-par...