A widespread outage is affecting the europe-west2 (London) Google Cloud region, beginning 2026-10-19 23:08 PDT, producing elevated errors and intermittent network failures across a broad set of products. Impacted services include core compute and storage offerings (Compute Engine, Persistent Disk, Google Cloud Storage, Filestore, NetApp Volumes), managed databases and data platforms (Cloud SQL, Cloud Spanner, AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Google BigQuery, Bigtable, Dataproc, Dataflow, Datastream, Cloud Data Fusion), networking and edge services (Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud NAT, VPC, Private Service Connect, Network Connectivity Center), developer and container platforms (Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Run, App Engine, Cloud Workstations), messaging and caching (Cloud Pub/Sub, Memorystore for Redis/Memcached), managed Kafka, Managed Airflow, Speech-to-Text, Storage Transfer Service and others. Looker Studio is explicitly not impacted.
Google’s engineering team is actively investigating and has issued multiple updates; follow-ups were posted at 01:35 and 02:24 PDT on 20 Oct 2026 with a commitment to provide further details by 04:00 PDT. A temporary mitigation is suggested where feasible: migrate affected workloads to other zones or regions. In some updates no workaround was available. The status messages apologize for the disruption and invite affected customers to contact support for issues not listed.
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