Outage in Google Cloud
We are investigating an issue where customers may experience timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products in the us-west1 region.
Resolved Major
August 20, 2026 - Started 20 days ago
- Lasted about 3 hours
Incident Report
Summary AI Generated
A major outage began on August 20, 2026 at 08:40 PDT affecting Google Cloud's us-west1 region, causing widespread timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across a broad range of products including Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage, and many others. The incident lasted approximately 2.9 hours and impacted virtually all major Google Cloud services in that region. No workaround was available during the outage, and Google's engineering team investigated and resolved the issue within that timeframe.
**Summary**
We are investigating an issue where customers may experience timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products in the us-west1 region.
**Description**
We are experiencing an issue with multiple products, beginning on Thursday, 2026-08-20 08:40 PDT.
Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.
We will provide an update by Thursday, 2026-08-20 10:30 PDT with details.
We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.
**Diagnosis / Customer Symptoms**
Customers in us-west1 may experience timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products.
**Workaround**
None at this time.
Components affected
Cloud Filestore (us-west1) Cloud Data Fusion (us-west1) Cloud Filestore Cloud Data Fusion Cloud Monitoring AlloyDB for PostgreSQL (us-west1) AlloyDB for PostgreSQL Persistent Disk (us-west1) Google Cloud Bigtable Google Compute Engine (us-west1) Google App Engine (us-west1) Google Cloud Pub/Sub Google Kubernetes Engine (us-west1) Cloud Build Artifact Registry Google Kubernetes Engine Google App Engine Cloud Build (us-west1) Google Compute Engine Google Cloud Pub/Sub (us-west1) Google BigQuery (us-west1) Persistent Disk Cloud Run Google Cloud Bigtable (us-west1) Artifact Registry (us-west1) Google BigQuery Google Cloud Dataproc Google Cloud Dataproc (us-west1) Identity and Access Management Cloud Run (us-west1) BigQuery Data Transfer Service Google Cloud Dataflow (us-west1) Google Cloud Composer (us-west1) Cloud Key Management Service Contact Center AI Platform (us-west1) BigQuery Data Transfer Service (us-west1) Contact Center AI Platform Google Cloud Storage Cloud Key Management Service (us-west1) Google Cloud Dataflow Google Cloud Composer Google Cloud Storage (us-west1) Google Cloud SQL Google Cloud SQL (us-west1) Dataproc Metastore Dataproc Metastore (us-west1)Trusted by 1,000+ teams
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