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CockroachDB: Major incident: gcp-eu-west2-b-availability-zone-issues

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Summary

Summary pending. The diff below shows exactly what changed.

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Part of an outage event

Google Cloud europe-west2 outage, Oct 20, 2026 · 19 vendors, 19 incidents

CockroachDB’s incident blames Google Cloud as the cause. (hop 1, posted +1 h 46 min vs Google Cloud’s own post)

“…gcp-eu-west2-b-availability-zone-issues GCP has mitigated the power event that caused this disruption in the europe-west2 region. All GCP and CRL services has returned to normal operation. No further…”

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What changed

Struck in red is what CockroachDB removed; blue is what they added. Muted text is unchanged context.

AddedTitle#1
Before: not present
After: gcp-eu-west2-b-availability-zone-issues
AddedImpact#2
Before: not present
After: minor
AddedStatus#3
Before: not present
After: investigating
AddedStart time#4
Before: not present
After: 2026-10-20 07:53 UTC
AddedAffected components#5
Before: not present
After: CockroachDB Advanced, CockroachDB Basic/Standard, CockroachDB Cloud - CockroachDB Advanced, CockroachDB Cloud - CockroachDB Basic/Standard
AddedUpdateinvestigating#6
Before: not present
After: GCP europe-west2-b and availability zone is currently experiencing issues. We will continue to monitor this situation and update status once we have more information.

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History of this incident

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