In a status update on Monday, Alibaba Cloud services said it was still gradually restoring access to servers and data affected by an explosion and fire last week. Specifically, servers were being "carefully dried" after sprinklers, and firefighters drenched them to quench a fire. We hope that works well, as unintentional liquid cooling can harm electronics.
Alibaba Cloud monitoring first flagged "network access anomalies" at its Zone C Singapore facilities last Tuesday, September 10. It quickly became aware of a fire in progress and updated customers to reassure them that firefighters were on the scene to quench the reported lithium battery explosion and fire. It seems to have taken just 30 minutes for Alibaba to switch its cloud network and security products to use data centers elsewhere. However, it asked customers who had control over such things to migrate their production workloads ASAP.
