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Google Cloud vs UpCloud: which is more reliable? (2026)
UpCloud is more reliable than Google Cloud, scoring 59.1 vs 56.4 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Google Cloud reported 4 incidents and UpCloud reported 5, with effective uptime of 98.90% and 99.37% respectively. Google Cloud resolves incidents faster on average (10h 56m).
Data updated Nov 1, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Google Cloud | UpCloud |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 56.4 | 59.1 |
| Rank (cloud providers) | #5 | #4 |
| Uptime (90 days) | 98.90% | 99.37% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 4 | 5 |
| Partial / major outages | 4 | 1 |
| Avg time to resolve | 10h 56m | 17h 6m |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | 100/100 | 100/100 |
Where Google Cloud and UpCloud differ
- UpCloud 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 1 for UpCloud.
- Google Cloud fixes problems faster: 10h 56m on average, against 17h 6m for UpCloud.
- Google Cloud's longest outage on record lasted 3d (Jun 5, 2026); UpCloud's lasted 3h 2m (May 26, 2026).
90-day uptime
Google Cloud
UpCloud
- 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 UpCloud incidents
- Degraded performanceOct 23, 2026 · resolved in 1h 48m
UpCloud API and Control Panel Connectivity Issues
Affected: UpCloud Control Panel, API
- Degraded performanceOct 6, 2026 · resolved in 7d 7h
[SG-SIN1] Managed Object Storage Issue
Affected: APAC-1: Managed Object Storage
- Degraded performanceSep 28, 2026 · resolved in 2h 40m
[FI-HEL2]: File Storage Issues
Affected: FI-HEL2: File Storage
- Degraded performanceAug 25, 2026 · resolved in 7h 4m
[DE-FRA1]: Storage Backend Issue
Affected: DE-FRA1: Storage Backends
- Partial outageAug 11, 2026 · resolved in 1h 57m
Affected: AU-SYD1: Cloud Servers, DE-FRA1: Cloud Servers, ES-MAD1: Cloud Servers, FI-HEL1: Cloud Servers, FI-HEL2: Cloud Servers, NL-AMS1: Cloud Servers +9 more
Other cloud providers to consider
- IBM Cloud · #1 · 100% uptime
- Hetzner Cloud · #2 · 99.61% uptime
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) · #3 · 99.43% uptime
- DigitalOcean · #6 · 98.04% uptime