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Akamai Cloud (Linode) vs Google Cloud: which is more reliable? (2026)
Google Cloud is more reliable than Akamai Cloud (Linode), scoring 56.4 vs 45.1 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Akamai Cloud (Linode) reported 23 incidents and Google Cloud reported 4, with effective uptime of 98.41% and 98.90% respectively. Google Cloud resolves incidents faster on average (10h 56m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Akamai Cloud (Linode) | Google Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 45.1 | 56.4 |
| Rank (cloud providers) | #7 | #5 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 98.41% | 98.90% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 23 | 4 |
| Partial / major outages | 0 | 4 |
| Avg time to resolve | 14h 19m | 10h 56m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Akamai Cloud (Linode) and Google Cloud differ
- Akamai Cloud (Linode) reported 5.8× as many incidents as Google Cloud over the last 90 days (23 vs 4).
- Google Cloud had 4 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Akamai Cloud (Linode).
- Google Cloud fixes problems faster: 10h 56m on average, against 14h 19m for Akamai Cloud (Linode).
- Akamai Cloud (Linode)'s longest incident on record lasted 3d (Oct 9, 2026); Google Cloud's lasted 3d (Jun 5, 2026).
90-day uptime
Akamai Cloud (Linode)
Google Cloud
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Akamai Cloud (Linode) incidents
- InformationalNov 1, 2026 · resolved in 3h 12m
Connectivity Issue - IN-MAA and IN-BOM-2
Affected: IN-MAA (Chennai), IN-BOM-2 (Mumbai 2)
- Degraded performanceOct 31, 2026 · ongoing
Service Issue - US-Southeast (Atlanta)
Affected: US-Southeast (Atlanta)
- InformationalOct 28, 2026 · ongoing
Service Issue - Block Storage (BR-GRU)
Affected: BR-GRU (São Paulo) Block Storage
- Degraded performanceOct 25, 2026 · ongoing
Connectivity Issue between ID-CGK (Jakarta) and SG-SIN-2 (Singapore 2)
Affected: ID-CGK (Jakarta), SG-SIN-2 (Singapore 2)
- InformationalOct 23, 2026 · resolved in 11h 17m
Connectivity Issue - Dallas Data Center (IPv6 Traffic to Google)
Affected: US-Central (Dallas)
- InformationalOct 22, 2026 · resolved in <1m
Service Issue - Linode Kubernetes Engine
Affected: US-East (Newark) Linode Kubernetes Engine, US-Central (Dallas) Linode Kubernetes Engine, US-West (Fremont) Linode Kubernetes Engine, US-Southeast (Atlanta) Linode Kubernetes Engine, US-IAD (Washington) Linode Kubernetes Engine, US-ORD (Chicago) Linode Kubernetes Engine +25 more
Recent Google Cloud incidents
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 6h 8m
Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore +32 more
- Partial outageOct 8, 2026 · resolved in 1d 5h
Affected: Google Cloud Storage
- Partial outageSep 1, 2026 · resolved in 4h 10m
Multiple products in us-central1-b are experiencing network service degradation.
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Run, Cloud Spanner +10 more
- Major outageAug 20, 2026 · resolved in 3h 40m
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee Edge Public Cloud, Apigee X, Artifact Registry, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Build +21 more
Other cloud providers to consider
- IBM Cloud · #1 · 100% uptime
- Hetzner Cloud · #2 · 99.63% uptime
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) · #3 · 99.43% uptime
- UpCloud · #4 · 99.37% uptime