# 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/r806b12d22795a3
Last updated: 2026-10-20T12:53:02Z
**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 12:53 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-20 12:53 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@1994767d6aa3 → after incident\_version:716/xs2xthzavc9ynafnpyzj@3fcede045b18
- Change 9 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 12:44 UTC
```diff
+ **Summary** Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region. **Description** We are seeing the recovery of services for most workloads in europe-west2 as of Tuesday, 2026-10-20 05:10 PDT. We will provide an update by Tuesday, 2026-10-20 07:00 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.](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. (this change) | 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 12:53 UTC (change 9 of 17).
- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/change/r806b12d22795a3
- Citation: Google Cloud, “Incident updated: Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.” (2026-10-20 12:53 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/change/r806b12d22795a3 (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/r806b12d22795a3)`
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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/change/r806b12d22795a3 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/change/r806b12d22795a3.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/changes/r806b12d22795a3 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-11-04T16:46:16.885Z