Outage report · Partial outage

Google Cloud outage on Jul 14, 2026

Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) Stretched Cluster customers are experiencing zonal outages impacting network connectivity across multiple regions.

SeverityPartial outage

StartedJul 14, 2026, 17:00UTC

ResolvedJul 15, 2026, 03:40UTC

Duration10h 40m

What happened

Google Cloud reported a partial outage starting Jul 14, 2026, 17:00 UTC, affecting VMWare engine. It was marked resolved at Jul 15, 2026, 03:40 UTC.

The incident lasted 10h 40m from first report to resolution.
Google Cloud had reported 1 other partial or major outage in the 90 days before it.
11 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from Google Cloud

## Incident Report ## Summary On Tuesday, 14 July 2026 10:00 PT, Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) Stretched Cluster customers in the australia-southeast2 and europe-west3 zones experienced inter-site communication failures. The disruption was traced to a network configuration update that introduced a conflict, causing inter-site communication failures, which triggered VMware Stretched Cluster failover events. Google engineers successfully mitigated the impact by rolling back the issue-causing configuration change and resetting the network state. We sincerely apologize for the disruption this incident caused to your business. We know how much you rely on Google Cloud, and we regret the impact on your productivity. We are working to address the root cause and prevent this from occurring in the future. ## Root Cause A network configuration update intended to prepare the cloud network infrastructure for new capabilities was deployed to the foundational network control plane. While the con

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