RESOLVED: Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) Stretched Cluster customers are experiencing zonal outages impacting network connectivity across multiple regions.

ResolvedminorUnverified reportFirst recorded update Jul 24, 2026, 07:14 AM · Resolved Jul 24, 2026, 07:14 AM

Incident began at 2026-07-14 10:00 and ended at 2026-07-14 20:40 (all times are US/Pacific ). Incident Report Summary On Tuesday, 14 July 2026 10:00 PT, Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) Stretched Cluster customers in the australia-southeast2 and europe-west3 zones experienced inter-site communication failures. The disruption was traced to a network configuration update that introduced a conflict, causing inter-site communication failures, which triggered VMware Stretched Cluster failover events. Google engineers successfully mitigated the impact by rolling back the issue-causing...

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