# 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/r3a70ddcb524217 Last updated: 2026-10-20T14:13:14Z **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 14:13 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-20 14:13 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@3fcede045b18 → after incident\_version:716/xs2xthzavc9ynafnpyzj@6f6aa7c3b50c - Change 10 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. Changed: Status** ```diff - investigating + resolved ``` **2. Added: Resolved time** ```diff + 2026-10-20 14:00 UTC ``` **3. Added: Update** (resolved) · 2026-10-20 14:03 UTC ```diff + **Summary** Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region. **Description** The issue with impacted GCP products has been mitigated for most of the customers and it is believed to be affecting currently a very small number of customers and our Engineering Team is working on it. If you have questions or are impacted, please open a case with the Support Team and we will work with you until this issue is resolved. No further updates will be provided here. We will publish an analysis of this incident once we have completed our internal investigation. We thank you for your patience while we're working on resolving the issue. **Symptoms** Google Cloud services were unavailable in europe-west2-b zone; some services in europe-west2 region might experienced elevated errors and intermittent network issues. **Workaround** None as the issue has been mitigated. ``` ## 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.](https://rewindex.com/change/r2e382417ec9884.md) | 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. (this change) | 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 | Previous: [change](https://rewindex.com/change/r806b12d22795a3.md) · Next: [change](https://rewindex.com/change/r9e036eed9f4f6b.md) · All Google Cloud changes: [timeline](https://rewindex.com/company/google-cloud/changes.md) _Diff excerpts are shown on normalized text: dates, counters and tokens appear as ‹date›, ‹count›, ‹tok›; noise-only edits are hidden. Rewindex shows the changed passages, not a copy of the page._ ## Cite this Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region. on Google Cloud’s status page, changed 2026-10-20 14:13 UTC (change 10 of 17). - Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/change/r3a70ddcb524217 - Citation: Google Cloud, “Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.” (2026-10-20 14:13 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/change/r3a70ddcb524217 (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/r3a70ddcb524217)` --- Canonical: https://rewindex.com/change/r3a70ddcb524217 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/change/r3a70ddcb524217.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/changes/r3a70ddcb524217 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-11-04T16:33:29.306Z