# Google Cloud: Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.
> Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.. Detected 2026-10-20 by Rewindex: what changed on Google Cloud’s status page, with the before/after diff.
Canonical: https://rewindex.com/change/r2e382417ec9884
Last updated: 2026-10-20T11:13:35Z
**Summary:** _summary pending_
## Part of an outage event
- [Google Cloud europe-west2 outage, Oct 20, 2026: 13 vendors, 13 incidents](https://rewindex.com/events/2026-10-20-google-cloud-europe-west2)
- This incident is the root of the event (the provider’s own post). (root, posted +0 min vs Google Cloud’s own post)
```mermaid
flowchart LR
root["Google Cloud europe-west2
posted 06:00 UTC"]:::root
h1["Within an hour
5 vendors, 5 blamed Google Cloud
JFrog, Aiven, Northflank, Elastic Cloud +1"]:::blames
root --> h1
h4["1 to 4 hours later
3 vendors, 3 blamed Google Cloud
MongoDB Atlas, Sourcegraph, CockroachDB"]:::blames
root --> h4
later["Later
3 vendors, 2 blamed Google Cloud
ClickHouse Cloud, Grafana Cloud, Confluent"]:::blames
root --> later
class root me
```
_Detected automatically from incidents that started together and named the same provider; a link means one incident named another vendor, not a confirmed cause._
- Kind: Incident update · Label: Normal progress (rule)
- Changed: 2026-10-20 11:13 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-20 11:13 UTC
- [Source: https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/Xs2XTHzAVC9YnafnPyzj](https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/Xs2XTHzAVC9YnafnPyzj)
- [Company: Google Cloud](https://rewindex.com/company/google-cloud.md)
- Versions: before incident\_version:716/xs2xthzavc9ynafnpyzj@4f146b46f362 → after incident\_version:716/xs2xthzavc9ynafnpyzj@976f96d52be3
- Change 7 of 17 for this incident
## Discussed on Hacker News
- [Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50163961): 403 points, 205 comments, posted 2026-10-20 10:26 UTC, posted 110 min after the vendor’s first update
- [GCP Europe-West2 Outage](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50162712): 31 points, 12 comments, posted 2026-10-20 07:56 UTC, posted 39 min before the vendor’s first update
- [Google Cloud networking is down in various regions](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50162230): 14 points, 14 comments, posted 2026-10-20 06:46 UTC, posted 109 min before the vendor’s first update
Incident page (full timeline): [Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/company/google-cloud/incidents/xs2xthzavc9ynafnpyzj.md)
## What changed
**1. Added: Update** (service_disruption) · 2026-10-20 11:12 UTC
```diff
+ **Summary** Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region. **Description** We are experiencing an issue with multiple services in europe-west2 beginning on Monday, 2026-10-19 23:08 PDT. Due to a power event we had suffered an outage within europe-west2-b zone. The power event is mitigated. Partial mitigation to infrastructure services will be observed within the next 30 minutes and the remaining services will be mitigated there after. We will provide an update by Tuesday, 2026-10-20 05:00 PDT with current details. We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption. **Symptoms** Google Cloud services are unavailable in europe-west2-b zone; some services in europe-west2 region may experience elevated errors and intermittent network issues. **Workaround** If feasible, the impacted customer may try to migrate their workload impacted to another available location (zone or region).
```
## History of this incident
| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-20 08:53 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/rfe8c4aafe57cbe.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-20 09:03 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/r6131d127463bda.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-20 09:33 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/re0dcc5f8540e38.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-20 09:53 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/r252701a0968489.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-20 10:03 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/rdd1a3ee812a030.md) | Wording only |
| 2026-10-20 11:03 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/rade68eea1e9196.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-20 11:13 UTC | Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region. (this change) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-20 12:03 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/r8d786fc5576be4.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-20 12:53 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/r806b12d22795a3.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-20 14:13 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/r3a70ddcb524217.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-22 05:53 UTC | [Incident silently edited: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/r9e036eed9f4f6b.md) | Wording only |
| 2026-10-22 07:53 UTC | [Incident silently edited: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/r542cfb49131cbb.md) | minor edit |
| 2026-10-22 08:53 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/rb2db5eefda1714.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-22 09:23 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/r02416fa855f7eb.md) | Rewrite: duration shortened |
| 2026-10-22 16:23 UTC | [Incident silently edited: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/r929797837978b4.md) | Wording only |
| 2026-10-27 15:23 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/rb99f45bcf9056e.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-28 00:43 UTC | [Incident updated: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/change/r419b50f369cceb.md) | minor edit |
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## Cite this
Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region. on Google Cloud’s status page, changed 2026-10-20 11:13 UTC (change 7 of 17).
- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/change/r2e382417ec9884
- Citation: Google Cloud, “Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.” (2026-10-20 11:13 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/change/r2e382417ec9884 (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[Google Cloud: Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region. (2026-10-20)](https://rewindex.com/change/r2e382417ec9884)`
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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/change/r2e382417ec9884 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/change/r2e382417ec9884.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/changes/r2e382417ec9884 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-11-04T16:33:23.189Z