Outage report · Partial outage

Google Cloud outage on Oct 20, 2026

Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.

SeverityPartial outage

StartedOct 20, 2026, 06:00UTC

ResolvedOct 20, 2026, 12:08UTC

Duration6h 8m

What happened

Google Cloud reported a partial outage starting Oct 20, 2026, 06:00 UTC, affecting AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Memorystore and 30 more. It was marked resolved at Oct 20, 2026, 12:08 UTC.

The incident lasted 6h 8m from first report to resolution.
Google Cloud had reported 3 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
12 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from Google Cloud

## Incident Report ### **Summary** On Monday, 19 Oct 2026 (Tuesday, 20 Oct BST), a data center facility that hosts europe-west2-b, experienced an external electrical power disruption. This resulted in service unavailability for workloads located in this zone. As traffic was redirected to alternative cloud regions or unaffected zones within europe-west2 cloud region, these workloads experienced transient latency and elevated errors affecting services across europe-west2. The primary impact was mitigated after 6 hours 8 minutes. ### **Root Cause** **Facility architecture and background:** The data center facility in the UK region hosts Cloud clusters serving the europe-west2-b zone, which form part of the multi-zonal europe-west2 Cloud region. The site relies on a 2N utility power architecture—meaning the facility has complete duplicate power paths for every critical load—backed by a central high-voltage generator bank managed by a dual-redundant Programmable Logic Controller (PLC). Pri

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