# Snowflake: GCP - US Central 1 (Iowa): INC0155608

- Impact (vendor’s label): major
- Status: postmortem
- Started: 2026-04-16 14:08 UTC · Resolved: 2026-04-16 15:08 UTC · Duration: 1.0 h
- Updates: 3 · Affected components: Applications, GCP - US Central 1 (Iowa) - Applications
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/vx546sd87qjx](https://stspg.io/vx546sd87qjx)
- [Company: Snowflake](https://rewindex.com/company/snowflake.md)

## Summary

A major GCP - US Central 1 (Iowa) outage could prevent customers from accessing Snowflake services through Snowsight. Snowflake reported impact from 12:25 UTC April 16, 2026 to 13:45 UTC; the archived incident started at 2026-04-16 14:08 UTC and lasted 1 h 0 min. Snowflake implemented a fix and confirmed restoration. _(machine-written, sol)_
## Timeline of updates

- **monitoring** 2026-04-16 14:08 UTC: \<b\>Current status:\</b\> We've implemented the fix for this issue, and we'll continue to monitor the environment until we're confident all services are functioning properly. \<b\>Customer experience:\</b\> Customers hosted in the specified regions may have been unable to access or use Snowflake services and features using Snowsight. \<b\>Incident start time:\</b\> 12:25 UTC April 16, 2026 \<b\>Incident end time:\</b\> 13:45 UTC April 16, 2026 \<b\>Preliminary root cause:\</b\> Some application instances entered a degraded state and were unable to handle downstream connections. Snowflake mitigated the issue by restarting the affected instances.
- **resolved** 2026-04-16 15:08 UTC: \<b\>Current status:\</b\> We've implemented the fix for this issue and monitored the environment to confirm that service was restored. If you experience additional issues or have questions, please open a support case via Snowflake Community or the Support page in Snowsight. \<b\>Customer experience:\</b\> Customers hosted in the specified regions may have been unable to access or use Snowflake services and features using Snowsight. \<b\>Incident start time:\</b\> 12:25 UTC April 16, 2026 \<b\>Incident end time:\</b\> 13:45 UTC April 16, 2026 \<b\>Preliminary root cause:\</b\> Some application instances entered a degraded state and were unable to handle downstream connections. Snowflake mitigated the issue by restarting the affected instances. A root cause analysis (RCA) document will be published within five business days.
- **postmortem** 2026-04-23 22:12 UTC: Snowflake Engineering has completed the postmortem of this service incident. A detailed Root Cause Analysis \\(RCA\\) is available on the Snowflake Community site: \[https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/INC0155608\](https://community.snowflake.com/s/article/INC0155608)

## Rewindex changes for this incident

- 2026-04-16 14:08 UTC: [Major incident: GCP - US Central 1 (Iowa): INC0155608](https://rewindex.com/change/i9ca02ffeaebfb2.md)


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