RESOLVED: We are investigating an issue where customers may experience timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products in the us-west1 region.

ResolvedminorUnverified reportFirst recorded update Aug 20, 2026, 07:37 PM · Resolved Aug 25, 2026, 06:20 AM

Incident began at 2026-08-20 08:40 and ended at 2026-08-20 12:20 (all times are US/Pacific ). Summary The issue causing timeouts, degradations, errors, and latencies across multiple us-west1 products has been mitigated. Description We have mitigated the issue impacting multiple products in our us-west1 region as of Thursday, 2026-08-20 10:22 PDT. Our engineering teams have restored capacity on a planned optical maintenance that caused unexpected congestion in Dalles, Oregon metro /us-west1 region. Our systems stabilized and services have recovered once capacity was restored. Our teams are...

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