Gemini Partial Outage - July 16, 2026

<p> Incident began at <strong>2026-07-15 16:57</strong> <span>(all times are <strong>US/Pacific</strong>).</span></p><div class="cBIRi14aVDP__status-update-text"><p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, and Bare Metal Solutions (BMS) services are experiencing temperature alerts in europe-west4-a</p> <p><strong>Description</strong></p> <p>The datacenter serving europe-west4-a for GCVE, BMS, and NetApp has experienced a power failure, which subsequently caused a cooling failure. Google has proactively turned down workloads in order to protect customer data from any risks posed by running infrastructure in a high temperature environment. The datacenter operator team is working diligently to bring cooling and power back online so we can safely restart affected workloads.</p> <p><strong>GCVE:</strong> Our engineering teams have shut down private clouds, and we expect that others will shut down as well. We will notify customers as soon as their private cloud has been powered back up and it is safe to restart the VMs.</p> <p><strong>BMS:</strong> Some Bare Metal Solution servers are experiencing high temperatures and we are in the process of shutting them down. Customers may be unable to access their systems until we resolve the issue.</p> <p><strong>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes</strong> Our engineering team has proactively shut down ONTAP clusters to protect the data stored on them. Customers may experience unavailability of Cloud NetApp Volumes until this issue is resolved.</p> <p>There is no estimated time for resolution. We will provide an update by Wednesday, 2026-07-15 22:30 PDT with current details. We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.</p> <p><strong>Customer Symptoms</strong></p> <p><strong>GCVE:</strong> Customers would have already observed a loss of connectivity to their private cloud. As a protective measure for hardware integrity and a recovery, we have shut down all private clouds in this zone.</p> <p><strong>BMS:</strong> Customers may have already lost connectivity to their BMS machines. As a protective measure for hardware integrity and a recovery, we are shutting down some servers in this zone.</p> <p><strong>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes</strong> Customers would have already lost connectivity to ONTAP clusters, as we proactively shut them down for their protection. Only Standard, Premium, and Extreme service levels are affected.</p> <p><strong>Workaround</strong></p> <p>There are no workarounds available for this issue at this time. Customers with multi-regional deployments are advised to route traffic to an alternate site.</p> </div><hr><p>Affected products: Bare Metal Solution, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, VMWare engine</p><p>Affected locations: Netherlands (europe-west4)</p>

<p> Incident began at <strong>2026-07-15 16:57</strong> <span>(all times are <strong>US/Pacific</strong>).</span></p><div class="cBIRi14aVDP__status-update-text"><p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>Google 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</p> <p><strong>Description</strong></p> <p>The datacenter serving europe-west4-a for GCVE, BMS, and NetApp has experienced a power failure, which subsequently caused a cooling failure. Google has proactively turned down workloads in order to protect customer data from any risks posed by running infrastructure in a high temperature environment. The datacenter operator team is working diligently to bring cooling and power back online so we can safely restart affected workloads. Some cooling has been restored, and we are working to restore affected workloads as available capacity allows.</p> <p><strong>GCVE:</strong> Our engineering teams have shut down private clouds to protect these clouds from any damage. We will notify customers as soon as their private cloud has been powered back up and it is safe to restart the VMs.</p> <p><strong>BMS:</strong> Some Bare Metal Solution servers experienced high temperatures and we proactively shut them down. Customers may have been unable to access their systems, but impacted systems have now been restored.</p> <p><strong>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes:</strong> Our engineering team has proactively shut down ONTAP clusters to protect the data stored on them. Customers may experience unavailability of Cloud NetApp Volumes until this issue is resolved.</p> <p>There is no estimated time for resolution. We will provide an update by Wednesday, 2026-07-15 22:45 PDT with current details.</p> <p>We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.</p> <p><strong>Customer Symptoms</strong></p> <p><strong>GCVE:</strong> Customers would have already observed a loss of connectivity to their private cloud. As a protective measure for hardware integrity and recovery, we have shut down all private clouds in this zone.</p> <p><strong>BMS:</strong> Customers may have lost connectivity to their BMS machines. As a protective measure for hardware integrity and recovery, we shut down some servers in this zone, but the impacted servers have been restarted and should be functioning normally.</p> <p><strong>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes:</strong> Customers would have already lost connectivity to ONTAP clusters, as we proactively shut them down to protect these clusters from any damage. Only Standard, Premium, and Extreme service levels are affected.</p> <p><strong>Workaround</strong></p> <p>There are no workarounds available for this issue at this time. Customers with multi-regional deployments are advised to route traffic to an alternate site.</p> </div><hr><p>Affected products: Bare Metal Solution, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, VMWare engine</p><p>Affected locations: Netherlands (europe-west4)</p>

<p> Incident began at <strong>2026-07-15 16:57</strong> <span>(all times are <strong>US/Pacific</strong>).</span></p><div class="cBIRi14aVDP__status-update-text"><p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, and Bare Metal Solution (BMS) services are experiencing a service outage in europe-west4-a due to a cooling failure.</p> <p><strong>Description</strong></p> <p>The datacenter serving europe-west4-a for GCVE, BMS, and NetApp has experienced a power failure, which subsequently caused a cooling failure. Google proactively turned down workloads in order to protect customer data from any risks posed by running infrastructure in a high temperature environment.</p> <p>Cooling and power have been restored at the site. The datacenter operator team is now working to safely restart affected workloads.</p> <p><strong>GCVE:</strong> As a precautionary measure, our engineering teams had shut down private clouds to protect these clouds from any damage. Service restoration is still in progress. We will notify customers as soon as their private cloud has been powered back up and it is safe to restart the VMs.</p> <p><strong>BMS:</strong> We are continuing to restore servers and monitor their health. Customers may be unable to access these systems until service restoration is complete.</p> <p><strong>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes:</strong> Our engineering team had proactively shut down ONTAP clusters to protect the data stored on them. Customers may experience unavailability of Cloud NetApp Volumes until this issue is resolved.</p> <p>We will provide an update by Thursday, 2026-07-16 00:30 PDT with current details.</p> <p><strong>Customer Symptoms</strong></p> <p><strong>GCVE:</strong> Customers would have already observed a loss of connectivity to their private cloud. As a protective measure for hardware integrity and recovery, we have shut down all private clouds in this zone.</p> <p><strong>BMS:</strong> Customers may have lost connectivity to their servers. As a protective measure for hardware integrity and recovery, we shut down some servers in this zone. We are continuing to restore servers and monitor their health. Customers may be unable to access these systems until service restoration is complete.</p> <p><strong>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes:</strong> Customers would have already lost connectivity to ONTAP clusters, as we proactively shut them down to protect these clusters from any damage. Only Standard, Premium, and Extreme service levels are affected.</p> <p><strong>Workaround</strong></p> <p>There are no workarounds available for this issue at this time. However, customers with multi-regional deployments are advised to route traffic to an alternate site.</p> </div><hr><p>Affected products: Bare Metal Solution, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, VMWare engine</p><p>Affected locations: Netherlands (europe-west4)</p>

<p> Incident began at <strong>2026-07-15 16:57</strong> <span>(all times are <strong>US/Pacific</strong>).</span></p><div class="cBIRi14aVDP__status-update-text"><p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, and Bare Metal Solution (BMS) services are experiencing a service outage in europe-west4-a due to a cooling failure.</p> <p><strong>Description</strong></p> <p>The datacenter serving europe-west4-a for GCVE, BMS, and NetApp has experienced a power failure, which subsequently caused a cooling failure. Google proactively turned down workloads in order to protect customer data from any risks posed by running infrastructure in a high temperature environment.</p> <p>Cooling and power have been restored at the site. The datacenter operator team is now working to safely restart affected workloads.</p> <p><strong>GCVE:</strong> As a precautionary measure, our engineering teams had shut down private clouds to protect these clouds from any damage. Network fabric has been restored, and Private Cloud restoration remains underway. We will notify affected customers once their Private Clouds are restored to allow for VM operational verification.</p> <p><strong>BMS:</strong> We are continuing to restore servers and monitor their health. Customers may be unable to access these systems until service restoration is complete.</p> <p><strong>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes:</strong> Our engineering team had proactively shut down ONTAP clusters to protect the data stored on them. Recovery is currently in progress. Customers may experience unavailability of Cloud NetApp Volumes until this issue is resolved.</p> <p>We will provide an update by Thursday, 2026-07-16 01:30 PDT with current details.</p> <p><strong>Customer Symptoms</strong></p> <p><strong>GCVE:</strong> Customers would have already observed a loss of connectivity to their private cloud. As a protective measure for hardware integrity and recovery, we have shut down all private clouds in this zone.</p> <p><strong>BMS:</strong> Customers may have lost connectivity to their servers. As a protective measure for hardware integrity and recovery, we shut down some servers in this zone. We are continuing to restore servers and monitor their health. Customers may be unable to access these systems until service restoration is complete.</p> <p><strong>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes:</strong> Customers would have already lost connectivity to ONTAP clusters, as we proactively shut them down to protect these clusters from any damage. Only Standard, Premium, and Extreme service levels are affected.</p> <p><strong>Workaround</strong></p> <p>There are no workarounds available for this issue at this time. However, customers with multi-regional deployments are advised to route traffic to an alternate site.</p> </div><hr><p>Affected products: Bare Metal Solution, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, VMWare engine</p><p>Affected locations: Netherlands (europe-west4)</p>

<p> Incident began at <strong>2026-07-15 16:57</strong> <span>(all times are <strong>US/Pacific</strong>).</span></p><div class="cBIRi14aVDP__status-update-text"><p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, and Bare Metal Solution (BMS) services experienced a service outage in europe-west4-a due to a cooling failure.</p> <p><strong>Description</strong></p> <p>The datacenter serving europe-west4-a for GCVE, BMS, and NetApp has experienced a power failure, which subsequently caused a cooling failure. Google proactively turned down workloads in order to protect customer data from any risks posed by running infrastructure in a high temperature environment.</p> <p>Cooling and power have been restored at the site. The datacenter operator team is now validating site stability.</p> <p><strong>GCVE:</strong> Network fabric has been restored, and Private Cloud restoration remains underway. We are notifying the affected customers as their Private Clouds are restored to allow for VM operational verification.</p> <p><strong>BMS:</strong> Server restoration is largely complete, with most systems now online and reporting a healthy status. We are actively working through the remaining validation efforts to achieve full recovery.</p> <p><strong>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes:</strong> Service restoration is complete, and all affected servers are now operational. We continue to monitor these for full service recovery. If customers are still experiencing impact from this issue, please contact Support, and we will work with you to resolve any residual impact.</p> <p>We will provide an update by Thursday, 2026-07-16 02:30 PDT with current details.</p> <p><strong>Customer Symptoms</strong></p> <p><strong>GCVE:</strong> Customers would have observed a loss of connectivity to their private cloud. As a protective measure for hardware integrity and recovery, we had shut down all Private Clouds in this zone. We are in the process of bringing all restored Private Clouds online.</p> <p><strong>BMS:</strong> Customers may have lost connectivity to their servers. As a protective measure for hardware integrity and recovery, we had shut down some servers in this zone. We are continuing to restore servers and monitor their health.</p> <p><strong>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes:</strong> Customers would have lost connectivity to ONTAP clusters, as they were proactively shut down to protect these clusters from any damage. Only Standard, Premium, and Extreme service levels were affected. Customers should now be able to access their volumes again.</p> <p><strong>Workaround</strong></p> <p>There are no workarounds available for this issue at this time. However, customers with multi-regional deployments are advised to route traffic to an alternate site.</p> </div><hr><p>Affected products: Bare Metal Solution, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, VMWare engine</p><p>Affected locations: Netherlands (europe-west4)</p>

<p> Incident began at <strong>2026-07-15 16:57</strong> <span>(all times are <strong>US/Pacific</strong>).</span></p><div class="cBIRi14aVDP__status-update-text"><p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, and Bare Metal Solution (BMS) services experienced a service outage in europe-west4-a due to a cooling failure.</p> <p><strong>Description</strong></p> <p>The datacenter serving europe-west4-a for GCVE, BMS, and NetApp has experienced a power failure, which subsequently caused a cooling failure. Google proactively turned down workloads in order to protect customer data from any risks posed by running infrastructure in a high temperature environment.</p> <p>Cooling and power have been restored at the site. The datacenter operator team is now validating site stability.</p> <p><strong>GCVE:</strong> Network fabric has been restored, and Private Cloud restoration remains underway. We are notifying the affected customers as their Private Clouds are restored to allow for VM operational verification.</p> <p><strong>BMS:</strong> Server restoration is largely complete, with most systems now online and reporting a healthy status. We are actively working through the remaining validation efforts to achieve full recovery.</p> <p><strong>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes:</strong> Service restoration is complete, and all affected servers are now operational. We continue to monitor these for full service recovery. If customers are still experiencing impact from this issue, please contact Support, and we will work with you to resolve any residual impact.</p> <p>We will provide an update by Thursday, 2026-07-16 03:30 PDT with current details.</p> <p><strong>Customer Symptoms</strong></p> <p><strong>GCVE:</strong> Customers would have observed a loss of connectivity to their private cloud. As a protective measure for hardware integrity and recovery, we had shut down all Private Clouds in this zone. We are in the process of bringing all restored Private Clouds online.</p> <p><strong>BMS:</strong> Customers may have lost connectivity to their servers. As a protective measure for hardware integrity and recovery, we had shut down some servers in this zone. We are continuing to restore servers and monitor their health.</p> <p><strong>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes:</strong> Customers would have lost connectivity to ONTAP clusters, as they were proactively shut down to protect these clusters from any damage. Only Standard, Premium, and Extreme service levels were affected. Customers should now be able to access their volumes again.</p> <p><strong>Workaround</strong></p> <p>None at this time.</p> </div><hr><p>Affected products: Bare Metal Solution, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, VMWare engine</p><p>Affected locations: Netherlands (europe-west4)</p>

<p> Incident began at <strong>2026-07-15 16:57</strong> <span>(all times are <strong>US/Pacific</strong>).</span></p><div class="cBIRi14aVDP__status-update-text"><p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, and Bare Metal Solution (BMS) services experienced a service outage in europe-west4-a due to a cooling failure.</p> <p><strong>Description</strong></p> <p>The datacenter serving europe-west4-a for GCVE, BMS, and NetApp has experienced a power failure, which subsequently caused a cooling failure. Google proactively turned down workloads in order to protect customer data from any risks posed by running infrastructure in a high temperature environment.</p> <p>Cooling and power have been restored at the site. The issue with GCVE and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes has been resolved for all affected users. We continue to recover the impact for BMS at the moment.</p> <p><strong>GCVE [Mitigated]:</strong> Service restoration is complete across all the Private Clouds. Customers have been informed about this restoration and requested to verify that their VMs are fully operational.</p> <p><strong>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes [Mitigated]:</strong> Service restoration is complete, and all affected servers are now operational. We continue to monitor these for full service recovery.</p> <p><strong>BMS:</strong> Server restoration is largely complete, with most systems now online and reporting a healthy status. We are actively working through the remaining validation efforts to achieve full recovery.</p> <p>For Google Cloud NetApp Volumes and GCVE, if customers are still experiencing impact from this issue, please contact Support, and we will work with you to resolve any residual impact.</p> <p>We will provide the BMS restoration status update by Thursday, 2026-07-16 04:30 PDT with current details.</p> <p><strong>Customer Symptoms</strong></p> <p>The issue is now resolved for GCVE and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. We continue to recover the impact for BMS at the moment.</p> <p><strong>GCVE [Mitigated]:</strong> Customers would have observed a loss of connectivity to their private cloud.</p> <p><strong>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes [Mitigated]:</strong> Customers would have lost connectivity to ONTAP clusters, as they were proactively shut down to protect these clusters from any damage. Only Standard, Premium, and Extreme service levels were affected. Customers should now be able to access their volumes again.</p> <p><strong>BMS:</strong> Customers may have lost connectivity to their servers. As a protective measure for hardware integrity and recovery, we had shut down some servers in this zone. We are continuing to restore servers and monitor their health.</p> <p><strong>Workaround</strong></p> <p>None at this time.</p> </div><hr><p>Affected products: Bare Metal Solution, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, VMWare engine</p><p>Affected locations: Netherlands (europe-west4)</p>

<p> Incident began at <strong>2026-07-15 16:57</strong> <span>(all times are <strong>US/Pacific</strong>).</span></p><div class="cBIRi14aVDP__status-update-text"><p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, and Bare Metal Solution (BMS) services experienced a service outage in europe-west4-a due to a cooling failure.</p> <p><strong>Description</strong></p> <p>The datacenter serving europe-west4-a for GCVE, BMS, and NetApp has experienced a power failure, which subsequently caused a cooling failure. Google proactively turned down workloads in order to protect customer data from any risks posed by running infrastructure in a high temperature environment.</p> <p>Cooling and power have been restored at the site. The issue with GCVE and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes has been resolved for all affected users. We continue to recover the impact for BMS at the moment.</p> <p><strong>GCVE [Mitigated]:</strong> Service restoration is complete across all the Private Clouds. Customers have been informed about this restoration and requested to verify that their VMs are fully operational.</p> <p><strong>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes [Mitigated]:</strong> Service restoration is complete, and all affected servers are now operational. We continue to monitor these for full service recovery.</p> <p><strong>BMS:</strong> Server restoration is largely complete, with most systems now online and reporting a healthy status. We are actively working through the remaining validation efforts to achieve full recovery.</p> <p>For Google Cloud NetApp Volumes and GCVE, if customers are still experiencing impact from this issue, please contact Support, and we will work with you to resolve any residual impact.</p> <p>We will provide the BMS restoration status update by Thursday, 2026-07-16 05:30 PDT with current details.</p> <p><strong>Customer Symptoms</strong></p> <p>The issue is now resolved for GCVE and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. We continue to recover the impact for BMS at the moment.</p> <p><strong>GCVE [Mitigated]:</strong> Customers would have observed a loss of connectivity to their private cloud.</p> <p><strong>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes [Mitigated]:</strong> Customers would have lost connectivity to ONTAP clusters, as they were proactively shut down to protect these clusters from any damage. Only Standard, Premium, and Extreme service levels were affected. Customers should now be able to access their volumes again.</p> <p><strong>BMS:</strong> Customers may have lost connectivity to their servers. As a protective measure for hardware integrity and recovery, we had shut down some servers in this zone. We are continuing to restore servers and monitor their health.</p> <p><strong>Workaround</strong></p> <p>None at this time.</p> </div><hr><p>Affected products: Bare Metal Solution, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, VMWare engine</p><p>Affected locations: Netherlands (europe-west4)</p>

<p> Incident began at <strong>2026-07-15 16:57</strong> and ended at <strong>2026-07-16 05:25</strong> <span>(all times are <strong>US/Pacific</strong>).</span></p><div class="cBIRi14aVDP__status-update-text"><p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, and Bare Metal Solution (BMS) services experienced a service outage in europe-west4-a due to a cooling failure.</p> <p><strong>Description</strong></p> <p>The datacenter serving europe-west4-a for GCVE, BMS, and NetApp has experienced a power failure, which subsequently caused a cooling failure. Google proactively turned down workloads in order to protect customer data from any risks posed by running infrastructure in a high temperature environment.</p> <p>Cooling and power have been restored at the site. The issue with GCVE and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes has been resolved for all affected users as of Thursday, 2026-07-16 02:31 PDT and 01:00 PDT respectively.</p> <p>The issue with BMS is largely resolved and is believed to be affecting a very small number of customers. Our Engineering will continue to recover this residual impact directly with the impacted customers.</p> <p>If you have questions or are still impacted, please open a case with the Support Team and we will work with you until this issue is resolved.</p> <p><strong>GCVE:</strong> Service restoration is complete across all the Private Clouds. Customers have been informed about this restoration and requested to verify that their VMs are fully operational.</p> <p><strong>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes:</strong> Service restoration is complete, and all affected servers are now operational.</p> <p><strong>BMS:</strong> Service restoration is largely complete. We continue working with a very small number of remaining affected customers to achieve full recovery.</p> <p>We thank you for your patience while we continue to fully resolve the issue.</p> <p><strong>Customer Symptoms</strong></p> <p>The issue is now resolved for GCVE and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes. The issue with BMS is largely resolved and our engineering will continue to recover this residual impact directly with the impacted customers.</p> <p><strong>GCVE:</strong> Customers would have observed a loss of connectivity to their private cloud.</p> <p><strong>Google Cloud NetApp Volumes:</strong> Customers would have lost connectivity to ONTAP clusters, as they were proactively shut down to protect these clusters from any damage. Only Standard, Premium, and Extreme service levels were affected.</p> <p><strong>BMS:</strong> Customers may have lost connectivity to their servers. As a protective measure for hardware integrity and recovery, we had shut down some servers in this zone.</p> <p><strong>Workaround</strong></p> <p>None at this time.</p> </div><hr><p>Affected products: Bare Metal Solution, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, VMWare engine</p><p>Affected locations: Netherlands (europe-west4)</p>