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Google Cloud vs Hetzner Cloud: which is more reliable? (2026)
Hetzner Cloud is more reliable than Google Cloud, scoring 71.7 vs 56.4 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Google Cloud reported 4 incidents and Hetzner Cloud reported 5, with effective uptime of 98.90% and 99.63% respectively.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Google Cloud | Hetzner Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 56.4 | 71.7 |
| Rank (cloud providers) | #5 | #2 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 98.90% | 99.63% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 4 | 5 |
| Partial / major outages | 4 | 0 |
| Avg time to resolve | 10h 56m | — |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Google Cloud and Hetzner Cloud differ
- Hetzner Cloud reported 25% more incidents than Google Cloud over the last 90 days (5 vs 4).
- Google Cloud had 4 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Hetzner Cloud.
90-day uptime
Google Cloud
Hetzner Cloud
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
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
Recent Hetzner Cloud incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 30, 2026 · ongoing
CVE-2026-97631 - critical security vulnerability in the EDK II UEFI firmware component
- Degraded performanceOct 27, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceOct 15, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
- Degraded performanceSep 24, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
October billing run: One-time billing of outstanding amounts below €10
- Degraded performanceSep 11, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
Other cloud providers to consider
- IBM Cloud · #1 · 100% uptime
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) · #3 · 99.43% uptime
- UpCloud · #4 · 99.37% uptime
- DigitalOcean · #6 · 98.04% uptime