Google Cloud outage, 20 August 2026
We are investigating an issue where customers may experience timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products in the us-w...
- Started
- Resolved
- 20 Aug 2026, 19:20 UTC (after 3 h 40 min)
- Impact
- Major
- Affected
- AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee Edge Public Cloud, Apigee X, Artifact Registry, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Build, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Key Management Service, Cloud Monitoring, Cloud Run, Contact Center AI Platform
Last update from Google Cloud
# Incident Report Summary On Thursday, 20 August 2026, from 08:00 to 10:22 US/Pacific (15:00 to 17:22 UTC), multiple Google Cloud services in the us-west1 region experienced elevated latency, provisioning failures, increased error rates, and widespread service degradations for a total duration of 2 hours and 22 minutes. The incident impacted a wide range of core services - including Persistent Disk, Google Kubernetes Engine, Google Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Google Cloud Bigtable, Cloud Storage, and Identity and Access Management - across both control plane operations and data plane requests. We sincerely apologize for the disruption this incident caused to your business operations and criti...
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