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🟠 Google's London infrastructure decided to take a unscheduled nap, leaving Elastic Cloud customers in europe-west2-b scrambling. When your cloud provider's availability zone becomes unavailable, the irony is so thick you could mine it. Elastic's playing damage control while their customers refresh status pages like slot machines. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Oct 20, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Degraded availability for some Elastic Cloud Hosted and Serverless deployments in GCP europe-west2 (London)

// Status page says

Oct 20 , 07:56 UTC Identified - Our cloud provider has confirmed an infrastructure incident affecting a single availability zone (europe-west2-b) in the GCP europe-west2 (London) region, causing network connectivity loss and resource unavailability in that zone. Elastic Cloud Hosted deployments and Elastic Serverless projects with resources in the affected zone may be unavailable or experience degraded performance. We have

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://status.elastic.co/incidents/fqp6s6mdd9pt

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