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

ResolvedmajorUnverified reportFirst recorded update Aug 20, 2026, 05:36 PM · Resolved Aug 21, 2026, 06:10 PM

Incident began at 2026-08-20 08:40 and ended at 2026-08-20 12:20 (all times are US/Pacific ). 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 Mitigation actions are implemented by our engineering teams, recovery trends have been observed across infrastructure layers. Active efforts remain underway to bring impacted cloud services back to full operation. We will provide an update by Thursday, 2026-08-20 11:00 PDT with details. Diagnosis / Customer...

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