GCP

🔴 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.

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

// The official story

UPDATE: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.

// Status page says

Incident began at 2026-10-19 23:08 (all times are US/Pacific ). Summary Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region. Description We are experiencing an issue with multiple services in europe-west2 beginning on Monday, 2026-10-19 23:08 PDT. Due to a power event we had suffered an outage within europe-west2-b zo

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

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

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