Google CloudOutage history and postmortems
Downtime, added up
Google Cloud: 2h 17m weighted downtime in range, category median 39m.
4 incidents, 30h 56m of incident time (30h 56m major or critical, 0m partial) between Jun 27, 2026 and Sep 24, 2026.
BigQuery, the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform (formerly Vertex AI), the Gemini API, Looker, AlloyDB and Spanner.
Stated causes
0 incidents with no cause stated.
Postmortems
- Multiple products in us-central1-b are experiencing network service degradation.
Teams should check service health dashboards when regional network service degradation affects cloud products.
- We are investigating an issue where customers may experience timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products in the us-west1 region.
Teams should monitor regional health alerts when experiencing elevated latencies and errors across cloud products.
- Google 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.
Teams should design multi region redundancy to withstand datacenter outages caused by cooling failures.
- Vertex AI Gemini API customers experienced increased error rates when accessing the global endpoint.
- Service Control crash loop returns 503s across Google Cloud
New code paths belong behind feature flags, and globally replicated policy data needs staged propagation like any binary.
Google Cloud incidents
7 on file
Questions
Is Google Cloud down right now?
Check Google Cloud's own status page at https://status.cloud.google.com for the live state. This page shows Google Cloud's incident history from that page; the most recent incident started 2026-09-01: "Multiple products in us-central1-b are experiencing network service degradation.".
How often does Google Cloud have outages?
Google Cloud posted 4 incidents in the last 90 days and 6 in the last year, 4 of them major or critical in the last 90 days. The median incident lasted 7h 24m.
When was Google Cloud's last major outage?
2026-09-01: "Multiple products in us-central1-b are experiencing network service degradation.", lasting 4h 8m.
What usually causes Google Cloud incidents?
Where Google Cloud explained the cause, the most common was configuration change (3 incidents). Most status updates do not name a cause.
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