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Aiven: Incident updated: Google Cloud VPN incident affecting services

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Summary

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Part of an outage event

Google Cloud europe-west2 outage, Oct 20, 2026 · 19 vendors, 19 incidents

Aiven’s incident blames Google Cloud as the cause. (hop 1, posted +35 min vs Google Cloud’s own post)

“…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…”

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What changed

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AddedUpdateinvestigating#1
Before: not present
After: 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 can disrupt communication between virtual machines. This may affect connectivity between nodes and the availability of clustered Aiven services in the affected location. Our team continues to investigate the impact on affected services and monitor their health. We will share further updates as more information becomes available.

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