# Google Cloud: Incident silently edited: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region. > Incident silently edited: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.. Detected 2026-10-22 by Rewindex: what changed on Google Cloud’s status page, with the before/after diff. Canonical: https://rewindex.com/change/r929797837978b4 Last updated: 2026-10-22T16:23:18Z **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: Silent edit · Label: Wording only (typesafe/jev-1.13-20260917) - Changed: 2026-10-22 16:23 UTC · Detected: 2026-10-22 16:23 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@edd3c13c4848 → after incident\_version:716/xs2xthzavc9ynafnpyzj@7abf5c743a82 - Change 15 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 were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.](https://rewindex.com/company/google-cloud/incidents/xs2xthzavc9ynafnpyzj.md) ## What changed **1. Changed: Update** (resolved) · 2026-10-22 08:42 UTC ```diff …please reach out to Google Cloud Support using - https://cloud.google.com/support. **Date/Time of the Issue (All time US/Pacific)** Incident Start: 19 October 2026 23:00 Incident End: 20 October 2026 05:10 Duration: 6 hours, 10 minutes **Summary** On Monday, 19 October 2026, + [**https\://cloud.google.com/support**](https://cloud.google.com/support). ## Date/Time of the Issue Incident Start:19 Oct 2026 23:00 US/Pacific / 20 Oct 2026 07:00 BST Incident End: 20 Oct 2026 05:10 US/Pacific / 20 Oct 2026 13:10 BST Duration: 6 hours, 10 minutes ## Summary On Monday, 19 October 2026 (Tuesday, 20 October BST), multiple Google Cloud Platform services in the europe-west2… …events leading to customer impact was as follows: - - At 22:53 US/Pacific, + * At 22:53 US/Pacific (20 Oct, 06:53 BST), an electrical power disruption occurred at the datacenter… …until the batteries were depleted, starting at 23:00 - US/Pacific. - + US/Pacific (20 Oct, 07:00 BST). * When the physical host servers, local storage infrastructure,… …monitoring systems and probers at 23:08 US/Pacific on - Monday, 19 October 2026, + 19 Oct (20 Oct, 07:08 BST), which detected elevated API error ratios, job submission… …clear smoothly. By 05:10 US/Pacific on Tuesday, 20 - October 2026, + Oct(13:10 BST), service availability had recovered for the vast majority… …notification for the incident was posted by 07:03 - US/Pacific. **Description of Impact** Between Monday, 19 October 2026, 23:00 + US/Pacific (15:03 BST). ## Description of Impact Between Monday, 19 Oct 2026, 23:00 US/Pacific (Tuesday, 20 Oct 2026, 07:00 BST) and Tuesday, 20 October 2026, 05:10 US/Pacific (13:10… …07:00 BST) and Tuesday, 20 October 2026, 05:10 - US/Pacific, + US/Pacific (13:10 BST), customers utilizing Google Cloud Platform services in the… …the initial phase from 23:00 to 04:29 US/Pacific + (07:00 to 12:29 BST) (duration 5 hours, 29 minutes), customers experienced elevated… …experienced a longer recovery tail. By 04:46 US/Pacific + (12:46 BST) new Virtual Machine creation resumed and by 05:10… …Virtual Machine creation resumed and by 05:10 US/Pacific + (13:10 BST) over 99% of Compute Engine Virtual Machines were… …in a healthy state. Any remaining customers that - are experiencing Virtual Machine problems should + were experiencing Virtual Machine problems were directed to file a customer support issue as per normal… ``` ## 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.](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. (this change) | 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/r02416fa855f7eb.md) · Next: [change](https://rewindex.com/change/rb99f45bcf9056e.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 silently edited: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region. on Google Cloud’s status page, changed 2026-10-22 16:23 UTC (change 15 of 17). - Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/change/r929797837978b4 - Citation: Google Cloud, “Incident silently edited: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.” (2026-10-22 16:23 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/change/r929797837978b4 (CC BY 4.0). - Markdown link: `[Google Cloud: Incident silently edited: Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region. (2026-10-22)](https://rewindex.com/change/r929797837978b4)` --- Canonical: https://rewindex.com/change/r929797837978b4 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/change/r929797837978b4.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/changes/r929797837978b4 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-11-04T17:15:49.582Z