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⚪ Google Cloud Storage took an unscheduled vacation from accepting writes, leaving customers' upload dreams deferred for over a day. The storage gods have since returned to their posts, but your hair may not. Incident spanned Oct 8-9 with a mysterious recurrence nobody's talking about.

⏰ 2h ago FYI spotted via status_rss

// The official story

RESOLVED: Google Cloud Storage (GCS) customers experienced elevated latencies and error rates when performing upload or write operations.

// Status page says

Incident began at 2026-10-08 04:00 and ended at 2026-10-09 09:46 (all times are US/Pacific ). Incident Report Date/Time of the Issue (All time 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</stro

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

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/mSFVt6PiP557bjRyYsut

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