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⚪ London datacenter decided to ghost half its services for the better part of a workday. Google's playing the classic "we fixed it but won't say what broke" card. Most customers are back online, some are still waiting for a postcard from the void.

⏰ 5d ago FYI spotted via status_rss

// The official story

RESOLVED: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.

// Status page says

Incident began at 2026-10-19 23:00 and ended at 2026-10-20 07:00 (all times are US/Pacific ). Summary Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region. Description 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 nu

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

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/Xs2XTHzAVC9YnafnPyzj

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🟢 GCP 6d ago

⚪ Update: RESOLVED: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.

🟢 GCP Oct 20, 2026

🔴 Europe-west2 is experiencing a full regional meltdown thanks to a power event. Multiple services are down, and GCP's hamsters are running out of breath on their wheels. Started at 23:08 PDT on Monday, so it's been a real lights-out situation over there.

⚪ GCP Oct 14, 2026

⚪ 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.

⚪ GCP Oct 09, 2026

⚪ Google Cloud Storage decided uploads were optional for 11 hours straight. Write operations moved at glacial speeds—and not the scenic kind. Incident lasted from early morning through afternoon Pacific time, turning 'cloud storage' into 'cloud sluggish.'