# Aiven: Incident updated: Google Cloud VPN incident affecting services

**Summary:** _summary pending_
## Part of an outage event

- [Google Cloud europe-west2 outage, Oct 20, 2026: 19 vendors, 19 incidents](https://rewindex.com/events/2026-10-20-google-cloud-europe-west2)
- This incident blames Google Cloud as the cause. (hop 1, posted +35 min vs Google Cloud’s own post)
- Evidence: “…Google Cloud VPN incident affecting services This incident has been resolved. A power outage in Google Cloud's europe-west2-b zone disrupted services running in the europe-west2 region. Nodes in the a…”

```mermaid
flowchart LR
  root["Google Cloud europe-west2<br/>posted 06:08 UTC"]:::root
  before["Posted before Google Cloud did<br/>1 vendor, 1 blamed Google Cloud<br/>JFrog"]:::blames
  root --> before
  h1["Within an hour<br/>4 vendors, 4 blamed Google Cloud<br/>Aiven, Northflank, Elastic Cloud, dbt Labs"]:::blames
  root --> h1
  h4["1 to 4 hours later<br/>4 vendors, 4 blamed Google Cloud<br/>MongoDB Atlas, Sourcegraph, CockroachDB, ClickHouse Cloud"]:::blames
  root --> h4
  later["Later<br/>2 vendors, 1 blamed Google Cloud<br/>Grafana Cloud, Confluent"]:::blames
  root --> later
  me["Aiven (this incident)<br/>posted +35 min"]:::me
  h1 --- 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: not classified yet
- Changed: 2026-10-20 11:13 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-20 11:13 UTC
- [Source: https://status.aiven.io/incidents/01M5C0SSS0D9951ZX60FANSRDT](https://status.aiven.io/incidents/01M5C0SSS0D9951ZX60FANSRDT)
- [Company: Aiven](https://rewindex.com/company/aiven.md)
- Versions: before incident\_version:133/01M5C0SSS0D9951ZX60FANSRDT@623849e55292 → after incident\_version:133/01M5C0SSS0D9951ZX60FANSRDT@377b42ec917c
- Change 2 of 6 for this incident

Incident page (full timeline): [Google Cloud VPN incident affecting services](https://rewindex.com/company/aiven/incidents/01M5C0SSS0D9951ZX60FANSRDT.md)
## What changed

**1. Added: Update** (investigating) · 2026-10-20 11:10 UTC

```diff
+ The latest information identifies europe-west2 and the europe-west2-b zone as affected locations. The incident involves Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) networking issues that are disrupting communication between virtual machines in the affected location, which is impacting the availability of clustered Aiven services — currently Aiven for Apache Kafka and Aiven for OpenSearch. We continue to monitor our services to identify any remaining impacted services and we are waiting for connectivity to be restored from Google side, and for the affected nodes to return. We will share further updates as more information becomes available.
```

## History of this incident

| When (UTC) | Change | Label |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-10-20 08:53 UTC | [Incident updated: Google Cloud VPN incident affecting services](https://rewindex.com/change/rfecd0236ce03b5.md) | Normal progress |
| 2026-10-20 11:13 UTC | Incident updated: Google Cloud VPN incident affecting services (this change) |  |
| 2026-10-20 14:13 UTC | [Incident updated: Google Cloud VPN incident affecting services](https://rewindex.com/change/reeffceffe4484f.md) |  |
| 2026-10-20 18:13 UTC | [Incident updated: Google Cloud VPN incident affecting services](https://rewindex.com/change/rd975e39edebbbe.md) |  |
| 2026-10-20 19:03 UTC | [Incident updated: Google Cloud VPN incident affecting services](https://rewindex.com/change/r579a78f27690f3.md) |  |
| 2026-10-20 19:33 UTC | [Incident updated: Google Cloud VPN incident affecting services](https://rewindex.com/change/r047e89c104a797.md) |  |

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