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⚪ us-west1 region decided to take an unscheduled nap from 8:40 AM to 12:20 PM, treating timeouts like they were going out of style. Engineers emerged from the war room with the all-clear, though 'mitigation complete' is corporate for 'we turned it off and back on.'. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

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

// The official story

RESOLVED: We are investigating an issue where customers may experience timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products in the us-west1 region.

// Status page says

Incident began at 2026-08-20 08:40 and ended at 2026-08-20 12:20 (all times are US/Pacific ). Summary The issue causing timeouts, degradations, errors, and latencies across multiple us-west1 products has been mitigated and we are working to recover all products. Description Mitigation actions have been completed by our engine

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

https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/utF3FMFdQfwBzJcGG6vf

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