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 27, 2026, 09:45 PM · Resolved Aug 27, 2026, 09:45 PM

Incident began at 2026-08-20 08:40 and ended at 2026-08-20 12:20 (all times are US/Pacific ). 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...

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