Cue the usual cast of characters who'd never trust cloud computing. Ever.
The GCE europe-west1-b zone Persistent Disk service is what's affected, but Google claims the amount of data lost is minuscule.
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Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment.
Aunty speaks peace unto nation (yes, even to Belgium):
Yevgeniy Sverdlik clarifies where the strikes happened:
Mike Wheatley uses a colorful metaphor -- "Lightning strike wipes out data":
Loud bang after flash Dave Neal before Zod: [You're fired -Ed.]
Meanwhile, Simon Sharwood says a second saw:
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