#gcp power outage in europe-west2 incident report:
https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/Xs2XTHzAVC9YnafnPyzj
The power generators didnt start and this is the best part:
"The sudden influx of redirected query executions, high-availability database failovers, and compute workloads saturated available compute slots"
So the high availability you pay for only ever exists on paper... Ridiculous, but understandable from economic perspective