# Aiven: Major incident: Issues with spin up node in google asia-southeast1 region

**Summary:** Aiven reported a major outage preventing node creation for some users in Google's asia-southeast1 region, starting 2026-10-12 00:04 UTC and resolved 2026-10-16 14:38 UTC, lasting 4 days 14 h. Aiven attributed the issue to an upstream cloud provider problem, worked with GCP on a fix, and reported resolving the underlying cause. _(machine-written, sol)_
- Kind: Major incident · Label: outage (model (Jev))
- Changed: 2026-10-12 00:04 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-17 18:22 UTC
- [Source: https://status.aiven.io/incidents/01M4PPT6YS34AQV0SQZCTAZYN3](https://status.aiven.io/incidents/01M4PPT6YS34AQV0SQZCTAZYN3)
- [Company: Aiven](https://rewindex.com/company/aiven.md)
- Versions: before (none: first archived) → after incident\_version:133/01M4PPT6YS34AQV0SQZCTAZYN3@5be2bf9ae3e2
- Change 1 of 1 for this incident

## What changed

**1. Added: Title**

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+ Issues with spin up node in google asia-southeast1 region
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**2. Added: Impact**

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+ major
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**3. Added: Status**

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+ resolved
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**4. Added: Start time**

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+ 2026-10-12 00:04 UTC
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**5. Added: Resolved time**

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+ 2026-10-16 14:38 UTC
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**6. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2026-10-12 00:04 UTC

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+ We have issues in the google asia-southeast1 region where we cannot spin up nodes. This is due to an upstream cloud provider issue that we are working on. We are currently investigating and will update further details in the next 30 minutes.
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**7. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2026-10-12 03:09 UTC

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+ We are investigating an issue preventing node creation in asia-southeast1. The issue is only affecting some users. Engineering is actively engaged with GCP support. Next update in 30 minutes.
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**8. Added: Update** (identified) · 2026-10-16 05:04 UTC

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+ We have identified the root cause of the issue preventing node creation in asia-southeast1. Our team is working with GCP to implement a fix. We will provide another update as soon as more information becomes available.
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**9. Added: Update** (resolved) · 2026-10-16 14:38 UTC

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+ We have resolved the underlying cause of this issue in Google's asia-southest1 region. Should any further issues be encountered, please reach out to support via the Aiven console. We apologise for the inconvenience caused by this issue.
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## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-12 00:04 UTC | Major incident: Issues with spin up node in google asia-southeast1 region (this change) | outage |

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