Provider incident title: “UPDATE: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.”
Started
Tuesday, October 20, 2026
08:44 AM UTC
Duration
5h 21m
total
Resolved
02:05 PM UTC
Oct 20, 2026
<p> Incident began at <strong>2026-10-19 23:08</strong> <span>(all times are <strong>US/Pacific</strong>).</span></p><div class="cBIRi14aVDP__status-update-text"><p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.</p> <p><strong>Description</strong></p> <p>We are experiencing an issue with multiple services in europe-west2 beginning on Monday, 2026-10-19 23:08 PDT.</p> <p>Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.</p> <p>We will provide an update by Tuesday, 2026-10-20 04:00 PDT with current details.</p> <p>We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.</p> <p><strong>Symptoms</strong></p> <p>Multiple Google Cloud services are experiencing elevated errors and intermittent network failures in europe-west2 region.</p> <p>Note: Looker Studio is not impacted by this outage.</p> <p><strong>Workaround</strong></p> <p>If feasible, the impacted customer may try to migrate their workload impacted to another available location (zone or region).</p> </div><hr><p>Affected products: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Memorystore, Cloud Run, Cloud Spanner, Datastream, Google App Engine, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Bigtable, Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Cloud Dataproc, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Google Cloud SQL, Google Cloud Storage, Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Looker (Google Cloud core), Managed Airflow, Google Cloud Composer, Managed Service for Apache Kafka, Memorystore for Redis, Memorystore for Redis Cluster, Memorystore for Valkey, Persistent Disk, Storage Transfer Service, VMWare engine, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)</p><p>Affected locations: London (europe-west2)</p>
<p> Incident began at <strong>2026-10-19 23:08</strong> <span>(all times are <strong>US/Pacific</strong>).</span></p><div class="cBIRi14aVDP__status-update-text"><p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.</p> <p><strong>Description</strong></p> <p>We are experiencing an issue with multiple services in europe-west2 beginning on Monday, 2026-10-19 23:08 PDT.</p> <p>Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.</p> <p>We will provide an update by Tuesday, 2026-10-20 05:00 PDT with current details.</p> <p>We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.</p> <p><strong>Symptoms</strong></p> <p>Multiple Google Cloud services are experiencing elevated errors and intermittent network failures in europe-west2 region.</p> <p>Note: Looker Studio is not impacted by this outage.</p> <p><strong>Workaround</strong></p> <p>If feasible, the impacted customer may try to migrate their workload impacted to another available location (zone or region).</p> </div><hr><p>Affected products: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Memorystore, Cloud NAT, Cloud Run, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Workstations, Datastream, Google App Engine, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Bigtable, Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Cloud Dataproc, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Google Cloud SQL, Google Cloud Storage, Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Looker (Google Cloud core), Managed Airflow, Google Cloud Composer, Managed Service for Apache Kafka, Memorystore for Memcached, Memorystore for Redis, Memorystore for Redis Cluster, Memorystore for Valkey, Network Connectivity Center, Persistent Disk, Private Service Connect, Speech-to-Text, Storage Transfer Service, VMWare engine, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)</p><p>Affected locations: London (europe-west2)</p>
<p> Incident began at <strong>2026-10-19 23:08</strong> <span>(all times are <strong>US/Pacific</strong>).</span></p><div class="cBIRi14aVDP__status-update-text"><p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.</p> <p><strong>Description</strong></p> <p>We are experiencing an issue with multiple services in europe-west2 beginning on Monday, 2026-10-19 23:08 PDT.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>We will provide an update by Tuesday, 2026-10-20 05:00 PDT with current details.</p> <p>We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.</p> <p><strong>Symptoms</strong></p> <p>Google Cloud services are unavailable in europe-west2-b zone; some services in europe-west2 region may experience elevated errors and intermittent network issues.</p> <p><strong>Workaround</strong></p> <p>If feasible, the impacted customer may try to migrate their workload impacted to another available location (zone or region).</p> </div><hr><p>Affected products: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Memorystore, Cloud NAT, Cloud Run, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Workstations, Datastream, Google App Engine, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Bigtable, Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Cloud Dataproc, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Google Cloud SQL, Google Cloud Storage, Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Looker (Google Cloud core), Managed Airflow, Google Cloud Composer, Managed Service for Apache Kafka, Memorystore for Memcached, Memorystore for Redis, Memorystore for Redis Cluster, Memorystore for Valkey, Network Connectivity Center, Persistent Disk, Private Service Connect, Speech-to-Text, Storage Transfer Service, VMWare engine, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)</p><p>Affected locations: London (europe-west2)</p>
<p> Incident began at <strong>2026-10-19 23:08</strong> <span>(all times are <strong>US/Pacific</strong>).</span></p><div class="cBIRi14aVDP__status-update-text"><p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.</p> <p><strong>Description</strong></p> <p>We are experiencing an issue with multiple services in europe-west2 beginning on Monday, 2026-10-19 23:08 PDT.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>Full recovery of existing workloads should be completed, tentatively by Tuesday, 2026-10-20 06:00.</p> <p>We will provide an update by Tuesday, 2026-10-20 06:00 PDT with current details.</p> <p>We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.</p> <p><strong>Symptoms</strong></p> <p>Google Cloud services are unavailable in europe-west2-b zone; some services in europe-west2 region may experience elevated errors and intermittent network issues.</p> <p><strong>Workaround</strong></p> <p>If feasible, the impacted customer may try to migrate their workload impacted to another available location (zone or region).</p> </div><hr><p>Affected products: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Memorystore, Cloud NAT, Cloud Run, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Workstations, Datastream, Google App Engine, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Bigtable, Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Cloud Dataproc, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Google Cloud SQL, Google Cloud Storage, Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Looker (Google Cloud core), Managed Airflow, Google Cloud Composer, Managed Service for Apache Kafka, Memorystore for Memcached, Memorystore for Redis, Memorystore for Redis Cluster, Memorystore for Valkey, Network Connectivity Center, Persistent Disk, Private Service Connect, Speech-to-Text, Storage Transfer Service, VMWare engine, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)</p><p>Affected locations: London (europe-west2)</p>
<p> Incident began at <strong>2026-10-19 23:08</strong> <span>(all times are <strong>US/Pacific</strong>).</span></p><div class="cBIRi14aVDP__status-update-text"><p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.</p> <p><strong>Description</strong></p> <p>We are seeing the recovery of services for most workloads in europe-west2 as of Tuesday, 2026-10-20 05:10 PDT.</p> <p>We will provide an update by Tuesday, 2026-10-20 07:00 PDT with current details.</p> <p>We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.</p> <p><strong>Symptoms</strong></p> <p>Google Cloud services are unavailable in europe-west2-b zone; some services in europe-west2 region may experience elevated errors and intermittent network issues.</p> <p><strong>Workaround</strong></p> <p>If feasible, the impacted customer may try to migrate their workload impacted to another available location (zone or region).</p> </div><hr><p>Affected products: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Memorystore, Cloud NAT, Cloud Run, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Workstations, Datastream, Google App Engine, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Bigtable, Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Cloud Dataproc, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Google Cloud SQL, Google Cloud Storage, Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Looker (Google Cloud core), Managed Airflow, Google Cloud Composer, Managed Service for Apache Kafka, Memorystore for Memcached, Memorystore for Redis, Memorystore for Redis Cluster, Memorystore for Valkey, Network Connectivity Center, Persistent Disk, Private Service Connect, Speech-to-Text, Storage Transfer Service, VMWare engine, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)</p><p>Affected locations: London (europe-west2)</p>
<p> Incident began at <strong>2026-10-19 23:08</strong> and ended at <strong>2026-10-20 07:00</strong> <span>(all times are <strong>US/Pacific</strong>).</span></p><div class="cBIRi14aVDP__status-update-text"><p><strong>Summary</strong></p> <p>Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.</p> <p><strong>Description</strong></p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>No further updates will be provided here.</p> <p>We will publish an analysis of this incident once we have completed our internal investigation.</p> <p>We thank you for your patience while we&#39;re working on resolving the issue.</p> <p><strong>Symptoms</strong></p> <p>Google Cloud services were unavailable in europe-west2-b zone; some services in europe-west2 region might experienced elevated errors and intermittent network issues.</p> <p><strong>Workaround</strong></p> <p>None as the issue has been mitigated.</p> </div><hr><p>Affected products: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Memorystore, Cloud NAT, Cloud Run, Cloud Spanner, Cloud Workstations, Datastream, Google App Engine, Google BigQuery, Google Cloud Bigtable, Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Cloud Dataproc, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Google Cloud SQL, Google Cloud Storage, Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Looker (Google Cloud core), Managed Airflow, Google Cloud Composer, Managed Service for Apache Kafka, Memorystore for Memcached, Memorystore for Redis, Memorystore for Redis Cluster, Memorystore for Valkey, Network Connectivity Center, Persistent Disk, Private Service Connect, Speech-to-Text, Storage Transfer Service, VMWare engine, Virtual Private Cloud (VPC)</p><p>Affected locations: London (europe-west2)</p>
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