Google Cloud Platform

Incident began at 2026-10-19 23:00 and ended at 2026-10-20 05:10 (all times are US/Pacific).

On Monday, 19 Oct 2026 (Tuesday, 20 Oct BST), a data center facility that hosts europe-west2-b, experienced an external electrical power disruption. This resulted in service unavailability for workloads located in this zone. As traffic was redirected to alternative cloud regions or unaffected zones within europe-west2 cloud region, these workloads experienced transient latency and elevated errors affecting services across europe-west2.

The primary impact was mitigated after 6 hours 8 minutes.

Facility architecture and background:

The data center facility in …

Incident began at 2026-10-19 23:00 and ended at 2026-10-20 05:10 (all times are US/Pacific).

We recognize that Google Cloud services are critical to your organization, and we sincerely apologize for the disruption this incident may have caused to your business. We are working to address the root cause and prevent this from occurring in the future.

Please note, this information is based on our best knowledge at the time of posting and is subject to change as our investigation continues. A final Incident Report with preventative actions will be posted once our investigation is complete.

If …

Incident began at 2026-10-19 23:00 and ended at 2026-10-20 05:10 (all times are US/Pacific).

Summary

Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.

Description

The issue with impacted GCP products has been mitigated for most of the customers and it is believed to be affecting currently a very small number of customers and our Engineering Team is working on it.

If you have questions or are impacted, please open a case with the Support Team and we will work with you until this issue is resolved.

No further updates will be provided here.

We will publish an analysis …

Incident began at 2026-10-19 23:08 and ended at 2026-10-20 07:00 (all times are US/Pacific).

Summary

Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.

Description

We are seeing the recovery of services for most workloads in europe-west2 as of Tuesday, 2026-10-20 05:10 PDT.

We will provide an update by Tuesday, 2026-10-20 07:00 PDT with current details.

We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.

Symptoms

Google Cloud services are unavailable in europe-west2-b zone; some services in europe-west2 region may experience elevated errors and intermittent network issues.

Workaround

If feasible, the impacted customer may try to migrate their …

Incident began at 2026-10-19 23:08 and ended at 2026-10-20 07:00 (all times are US/Pacific).

Summary

Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.

Description

We are experiencing an issue with multiple services in europe-west2 beginning on Monday, 2026-10-19 23:08 PDT.

A power event caused an outage within europe-west2-b zone. The power event is mitigated. We are seeing the recovery of services and are prioritizing the recovery of existing workloads.Customers may not be able to yet create new workloads.

Full recovery of existing workloads should be completed, tentatively by Tuesday, 2026-10-20 06:00.

We will provide an update by Tuesday, …

Incident began at 2026-10-19 23:08 and ended at 2026-10-20 07:00 (all times are US/Pacific).

Summary

Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.

Description

We are experiencing an issue with multiple services in europe-west2 beginning on Monday, 2026-10-19 23:08 PDT.

Due to a power event we had suffered an outage within europe-west2-b zone. The power event is mitigated. Partial mitigation to infrastructure services will be observed within the next 30 minutes and the remaining services will be mitigated there after.

We will provide an update by Tuesday, 2026-10-20 05:00 PDT with current details.

We apologize to all who …

Incident began at 2026-10-19 23:08 and ended at 2026-10-20 07:00 (all times are US/Pacific).

Summary

Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.

Description

We are experiencing an issue with multiple services in europe-west2 beginning on Monday, 2026-10-19 23:08 PDT.

Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.

We will provide an update by Tuesday, 2026-10-20 05:00 PDT with current details.

We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.

Symptoms

Multiple Google Cloud services are experiencing elevated errors and intermittent network failures in europe-west2 region.

Note: Looker Studio is not impacted by this outage.

Workaround

If …

Incident began at 2026-10-19 23:08 and ended at 2026-10-20 07:00 (all times are US/Pacific).

Summary

Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.

Description

We are experiencing an issue with multiple services in europe-west2 beginning on Monday, 2026-10-19 23:08 PDT.

Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.

We will provide an update by Tuesday, 2026-10-20 04:00 PDT with current details.

We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.

Symptoms

Multiple Google Cloud services are experiencing elevated errors and intermittent network failures in europe-west2 region.

Note: Looker Studio is not impacted by this outage.

Workaround

If …

Incident began at 2026-10-19 23:08 and ended at 2026-10-20 07:00 (all times are US/Pacific).

Summary

Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.

Description

We are experiencing an issue with multiple services in europe-west2 beginning on Monday, 2026-10-19 23:08 PDT.

Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.

We will provide an update by Tuesday, 2026-10-20 02:30 PDT with current details.

We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.

Symptoms

Multiple Google Cloud services are experiencing elevated errors and intermittent network failures in europe-west2 region.

Workaround

None for now

Affected products: Google Kubernetes Engine

Affected locations: London …

Incident began at 2026-09-01 07:42 and ended at 2026-09-01 11:52 (all times are US/Pacific).

This addendum extends the Detailed Description of Impact from the previous message. Though only two clusters in a datacenter in us-central1-b and us-central1-f experienced network isolation, a few regional products with a dependency on the affected datacenter were also affected. Between 07:41 and 11:52 US/Pacific on Tuesday, September 1, 2026, the following products were affected:

• Compute Engine VMs: VMs running in the affected data center lost network connectivity to resources located outside of their datacenter. From a Compute Engine perspective, …

Incident began at 2026-10-08 04:00 and ended at 2026-10-09 09:46 (all times are US/Pacific).

Incident First Occurrence

Incident Start: 08 October 2026 04:00

Incident End: 08 October 2026 16:30

Duration: 12 hours, 30 minutes

Incident Recurrence

Recurrence Start: 09 October 2026 04:05

Recurrence End: 09 October 2026 09:46

Duration: 5 hours, 41 minutes

Total Duration: 18 hours, 11 minutes

On Thursday, 08 October 2026, Google Cloud Storage experienced elevated write latency and write error rates while performing upload or write operations in the us-central1 region for a duration of …

Incident began at 2026-10-08 04:00 and ended at 2026-10-09 09:46 (all times are US/Pacific).

We sincerely apologize for the disruption this incident caused to your business. We know how much you rely on Google Cloud, and we regret the impact on your productivity. We are working to address the root cause and prevent this from occurring in the future.

Please note, this information is based on our best knowledge at the time of posting and is subject to change as our investigation continues. A final Incident Report with preventative actions will be posted once our investigation …

Incident began at 2026-10-08 05:19 and ended at 2026-10-08 16:30 (all times are US/Pacific).

Summary

Google Cloud Storage customers are experiencing elevated latencies and error rates when performing upload or write operations

Description

We are continuing to mitigate the issue with Google Cloud Storage in the us-central1 region that began on Thursday, 2026-10-08 05:19 PDT.

The initial mitigations applied by our engineering team continue to show observable improvements in error rates.

Our engineering team is actively monitoring the environment and rolling out further mitigations to fully stabilize the service.

We will provide an update by Thursday, 2026-10-08 16:00 PDT …

Incident began at 2026-10-08 05:19 and ended at 2026-10-08 16:30 (all times are US/Pacific).

Summary

Google Cloud Storage customers are experiencing elevated latencies and error rates when performing upload or write operations

Description

We are continuing to mitigate the issue with Google Cloud Storage in the us-central1 region that began on Thursday, 2026-10-08 05:19 PDT.

The initial mitigations applied by our engineering team continue to show observable improvements in error rates. Our engineering team is actively monitoring the environment and rolling out further mitigations to fully stabilize the service.

We will provide an update by Thursday, 2026-10-08 14:00 PDT …

Incident began at 2026-10-08 05:19 and ended at 2026-10-08 16:30 (all times are US/Pacific).

Summary

Google Cloud Storage customers are experiencing elevated latencies and error rates when performing upload or write operations

Description

We are experiencing an issue with Google Cloud Storage beginning on Thursday, 2026-10-08 05:19 PDT.

Initial mitigations applied by our engineering team leading to observable improvements in error rates in our internal monitoring beginning 10:57 PDT. Work remains underway to roll out further mitigations.

We will provide an update by Thursday, 2026-10-08 12:45 PDT with current details.

Customer Symptoms

• Customers are experiencing elevated latencies and …

Incident began at 2026-10-08 05:19 and ended at 2026-10-08 16:30 (all times are US/Pacific).

Summary

Google Cloud Storage customers are experiencing elevated latencies and error rates when performing upload or write operations

Description

We are experiencing an issue with Google Cloud Storage beginning on Thursday, 2026-10-08 05:19 PDT.

Initial mitigations applied by our engineering team leading to observable improvements in error rates in our internal monitoring. Work remains underway to roll out further mitigations.

We will provide an update by Thursday, 2026-10-08 12:00 PDT with current details.

Customer Symptoms

• Customers are experiencing elevated latencies and error rates when …

Incident began at 2026-10-08 05:19 and ended at 2026-10-08 16:30 (all times are US/Pacific).

Summary

Google Cloud Storage customers are experiencing elevated latencies and error rates when performing upload or write operations

Description

We are experiencing an issue with Google Cloud Storage beginning on Thursday, 2026-10-08 05:19 PDT.

Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.

We will provide an update by Thursday, 2026-10-08 11:50 PDT with current details.

Customer Symptoms

• Customers are experiencing elevated latencies and error rates when performing upload or write operations.
• A smaller subset of read operations may also experience increased latency and errors
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Incident began at 2026-09-01 07:44 and ended at 2026-09-01 11:52 (all times are US/Pacific).

On Tuesday, 1 September 2026, some customers in us-central1 experienced network service degradation and instance isolation for a duration of 4 hours and 11 minutes. To our customers whose businesses were impacted during this disruption, we sincerely apologize. This is not the level of quality and reliability we strive to offer you, and we are taking immediate steps to improve the platform’s performance and availability.

The event was triggered by the inadvertent physical disconnection of network fiber-optic cables during routine …