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Google Cloud vs IBM Cloud: which is more reliable? (2026)
IBM Cloud is more reliable than Google Cloud, scoring 88.4 vs 56.4 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Google Cloud reported 4 incidents and IBM Cloud reported 1, with effective uptime of 98.90% and 100% respectively.
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Google Cloud | IBM Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 56.4 | 88.4 |
| Rank (cloud providers) | #5 | #1 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 98.90% | 100% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 4 | 1 |
| Partial / major outages | 4 | 1 |
| Avg time to resolve | 10h 56m | — |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Google Cloud and IBM Cloud differ
- Google Cloud reported 4× as many incidents as IBM Cloud over the last 90 days (4 vs 1).
- Google Cloud had 4 partial or major outages, compared with 1 for IBM Cloud.
90-day uptime
Google Cloud
IBM 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.official update ↗
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
Google Cloud Storage (GCS) customers experienced elevated latencies and error rates when performing upload or write operations.official update ↗
Affected: Google Cloud Storage
- Partial outageSep 1, 2026 · resolved in 4h 10m
Multiple products in us-central1-b are experiencing network service degradation.official update ↗
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Run, Cloud Spanner +10 more
- Major outageAug 20, 2026 · resolved in 3h 40m
We are investigating an issue where customers may experience timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products in the us-west1 region.official update ↗
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee Edge Public Cloud, Apigee X, Artifact Registry, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Build +21 more
Recent IBM Cloud incidents
- Partial outageOct 21, 2026 · resolved (duration not published)
Other cloud providers to consider
- Hetzner Cloud · #2 · 99.61% uptime
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) · #3 · 99.43% uptime
- UpCloud · #4 · 99.37% uptime
- DigitalOcean · #6 · 98.04% uptime