Fire burns Google Cloud India’s network, which remains slow a week later

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Google Cloud customers with resources in India have had to deal with elevated latency for several days – and there’s no end in sight.Per a Google status page, on June 9th “A fire at a third-party data center facility required an emergency power shutdown of networking equipment, isolating a non-compute local Point of Presence (POP) in Delhi and reducing available network capacity in the metro area.”That shutdown caused “intermittent periods of elevated latency and possible packet loss” for network traffic headed to Google Cloud from Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and surrounding areas. “Customers may experience slightly elevated latency and non-optimal network routing into Google Cloud until the affected facility is fully restored,” Google warned.

Google has implemented “traffic mitigations” that it says have improved performance “for some Cloud customers,” and is trying to arrange extra peering capacity.

That work is ongoing, with the ads-and-cloud giant promising it is “further augmenting our Delhi backbone capacity” and hopes to have better news on Monday. The web giant is also working to improve regional peering capacity in the city of Chennai, to assist large ISPs in India and hopes that work will be complete on Wednesday, June 17th.Japan’s space truck is back in businessJapan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) last week successfully launched its H3 rocket, a welcome return to form after its previous two missions failed.This success will be doubly sweet for JAXA, because the H3 used for this mission employed a pair of outboard boosters – the first time the agency has used the launcher in this configuration.The rocket launched on June 12th and placed six satellites in orbit.