Incidentsby GlyphGoogle Cloud outage history and postmortems
Cloud and hosting · 4 incidents in 90 days · 99.85% implied uptime · last 20d ago
No open incidents· checked 1h 22m agoLast resolved 20 days ago: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region., lasted 6h 8m
History
Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.On Monday, 19 Oct 2026 at 22:53 US/Pacific (Tuesday, 20 Oct 2026, 06:53 BST), a data center facility that hosts europe-west2-b, a zone within the europe-west2 cloud region, experienced an external electrical power disruption.lasted 6h 8mPowerPostmortemGoogle Cloud Storage (GCS) customers experienced elevated latencies and error rates when performing upload or write operations.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 12 hours, 30 minutes.lasted 29h 46mCapacityPostmortemMultiple products in us-central1-b are experiencing network service degradation.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.lasted 4h 10mNetworkPostmortemWe are investigating an issue where customers may experience timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products in the us-west1 region.On Thursday, 20 August 2026, from 08:00 to 10:22 US/Pacific (15:00 to 17:22 UTC), multiple Google Cloud services in the us-west1 region experienced elevated latency, provisioning failures, increased error rates, and widespread service degradations for a total duration of 2 hours…lasted 3h 40mCapacityPostmortemGoogle Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, and Bare Metal Solutions (BMS) services are experiencing a service outage in europe-west4-a due to a cooling failure.On Wednesday, 15 July 2026, Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), Bare Metal Solution (BMS), and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV) experienced service interruptions for a total duration of 14 hours, 55 minutes.lasted 12h 28mPowerPostmortemGoogle Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) Stretched Cluster customers are experiencing zonal outages impacting network connectivity across multiple regions.On Tuesday, 14 July 2026 10:00 PT, Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) Stretched Cluster customers in the australia-southeast2 and europe-west3 zones experienced inter-site communication failures.lasted 10h 40mNetworkPostmortemNetwork traffic to Google Cloud originating from Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai and surrounding areas is experiencing intermittent periods of elevated latency and possible packet loss.lasted 21d 12hCapacityVertex AI Gemini API customers experienced increased error rates when accessing the global endpoint.On Friday, 27 February 2026 at 04:37 US/Pacific, customers using Vertex AI Gemini API models experienced increased error rates.lasted 1h 58mConfig changePostmortemService Control crash loop returns 503s across Google CloudA policy change inserted into the regional Spanner tables that Service Control reads hit an unguarded code path with a null pointer, crashing Service Control binaries worldwide.lasted 3hConfig changePostmortem
About Google Cloud
BigQuery, the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI), the Gemini API, Looker, AlloyDB and Spanner.
The last year, day by day
No incident Minor Major CriticalDeeper colour: longer outage
Downtime, added up
Cloud and hosting median
3h 14m
Google Cloud: 3h 14m weighted downtime in range, category median 48m.
4 incidents, 4 major or critical, 43h 44m of incident time (43h 44m major or critical, 0m partial), longest 29h 46m, implied uptime 99.85%, between Aug 12, 2026 and Nov 9, 2026.
Postmortems
Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.On Monday, 19 Oct 2026 at 22:53 US/Pacific (Tuesday, 20 Oct 2026, 06:53 BST), a data center facility that hosts europe-west2-b, a zone within the europe-west2 cloud region, experienced an external electrical power disruption.lasted 6h 8mPowerPostmortemGoogle Cloud Storage (GCS) customers experienced elevated latencies and error rates when performing upload or write operations.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 12 hours, 30 minutes.lasted 29h 46mCapacityPostmortemMultiple products in us-central1-b are experiencing network service degradation.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.lasted 4h 10mNetworkPostmortemWe are investigating an issue where customers may experience timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products in the us-west1 region.On Thursday, 20 August 2026, from 08:00 to 10:22 US/Pacific (15:00 to 17:22 UTC), multiple Google Cloud services in the us-west1 region experienced elevated latency, provisioning failures, increased error rates, and widespread service degradations for a total duration of 2 hours…lasted 3h 40mCapacityPostmortemGoogle Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, and Bare Metal Solutions (BMS) services are experiencing a service outage in europe-west4-a due to a cooling failure.On Wednesday, 15 July 2026, Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), Bare Metal Solution (BMS), and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV) experienced service interruptions for a total duration of 14 hours, 55 minutes.lasted 12h 28mPowerPostmortemGoogle Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) Stretched Cluster customers are experiencing zonal outages impacting network connectivity across multiple regions.On Tuesday, 14 July 2026 10:00 PT, Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) Stretched Cluster customers in the australia-southeast2 and europe-west3 zones experienced inter-site communication failures.lasted 10h 40mNetworkPostmortemVertex AI Gemini API customers experienced increased error rates when accessing the global endpoint.On Friday, 27 February 2026 at 04:37 US/Pacific, customers using Vertex AI Gemini API models experienced increased error rates.lasted 1h 58mConfig changePostmortemService Control crash loop returns 503s across Google CloudA policy change inserted into the regional Spanner tables that Service Control reads hit an unguarded code path with a null pointer, crashing Service Control binaries worldwide.lasted 3hConfig changePostmortem
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Questions
Is Google Cloud down right now?
Check Google Cloud's own status page at https://status.cloud.google.com for the live state. This page shows Google Cloud's incident history from that page; the most recent incident started 2026-10-20: "Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.".
How often does Google Cloud have outages?
Google Cloud posted 4 incidents in the last 90 days and 8 in the last year, 4 of them major or critical in the last 90 days. The median incident lasted 5h 9m.
When was Google Cloud's last major outage?
2026-10-20: "Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.", lasting 6h 8m.
What usually causes Google Cloud incidents?
Where Google Cloud explained the cause, the most common was capacity and load (3 incidents). Most status updates do not name a cause.