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Elastic Cloud: Major incident: Delayed or Unavailable project operation in GCP us-central1

Summary

A major outage caused delayed or unavailable operations for some Elastic Cloud Serverless projects in GCP us-central1 from 2026-10-08 16:42 UTC to 2026-10-09 00:54 UTC, lasting 8 h 11 min. Elastic identified an upstream cloud storage issue; the provider applied mitigations, and project operations returned to normal.

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Major incidentLabel: outage (model (Jev), 46%)Changed Detected Source: stspg.io

What changed

AddedTitle#1
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After: Delayed or Unavailable project operation in GCP us-central1
AddedImpact#2
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After: major
AddedStatus#3
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After: resolved
AddedStart time#4
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After: 2026-10-08 16:42 UTC
AddedResolved time#5
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After: 2026-10-09 00:54 UTC
AddedAffected components#6
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After: GCP Infrastructure health: us-central1, GCP Iowa (us-central1) - GCP Infrastructure health: us-central1
AddedUpdateinvestigating#7
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After: We are investigating an issue affecting some Elastic Cloud Serverless projects in the GCP us-central1 region. Customers may experience delayed or unavailable project operation.
AddedUpdateidentified#8
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After: We have identified an issue with cloud storage affecting some Elastic Cloud Serverless projects in the GCP us-central1 region. Customers may experience delayed or unavailable project operations. The provider is investigating the issue, and we are monitoring recovery. We will provide another update when more information is available.
AddedUpdateidentified#9
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After: Some Elastic Cloud Serverless projects in the GCP us-central1 region may still experience delayed or unavailable project operations. The provider is continuing to investigate the issue. We are monitoring the situation and will provide another update when more information is available.
AddedUpdatemonitoring#10
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After: We have observed improvements after mitigations were applied by our upstream cloud storage provider. Some Elastic Cloud Serverless projects in the GCP us-central1 region may still experience delayed or unavailable project operations while recovery continues. We are monitoring the situation and will provide another update when more information is available.
AddedUpdateresolved#11
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After: The upstream cloud storage issue affecting some Elastic Cloud Serverless projects in the GCP us-central1 region has been resolved. Project operations have returned to normal, and we are no longer seeing affected projects in a red health state.

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History of this incident

When (UTC)ChangeKind
Major incident: Delayed or Unavailable project operation in GCP us-central1 (this change)
A major outage caused delayed or unavailable operations for some Elastic Cloud Serverless projects in GCP us-central1 from 2026-10-08 16:42 UTC to 2026-10-09 00:54 UTC, lasting 8 h 11 min. Elastic identified an upstream cloud storage issue; the provider applied mitigations, and project operations returned to normal.
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