Root cause
Power and facilities
Power, cooling, fire or a data center facility problem.
Incidents per month
October 2025September 2026
Incidents
IncidentStarted (UTC)DurationImpactRoot cause
Google CloudGoogle Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, and Bare Metal Solutions (BMS) services are experiencing a service outage in europe-west4-a due to a cooling failure.Jul 15, 2026, 23:5712h 28mMajorPower
SnowflakeAzure - West US 2 (Washington): INC0157956May 29, 2026, 06:4715h 42mMajorPower
ElasticUpstream Azure Outage Causing Service DegradationMay 29, 2026, 06:322d 15hMajorPower
AWSIncreased Error Rate and LatencyMay 8, 2026, 00:2526h 39mMinorPower
SnowflakeAWS - Middle East (UAE): INC0152681Mar 1, 2026, 13:3375d 1hCriticalPower
Questions
How common are outages caused by power and facilities?
5 incidents in the last 12 months across the vendors tracked here were traced to power and facilities in the vendors' own words.
How is this cause identified?
From the sentences where the vendor explains why the incident happened, or by hand for landmark postmortems. Symptoms like "elevated error rates" are never counted as a cause.
From vendors' own status pages and disclosures. Times as reported. Logos via logo.dev; trademarks belong to their owners.