Google Cloud Platform outage — August 20, 2026
We are investigating an issue where customers may experience timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products in the us-west1 region.
Google Cloud Platform’s Multiple services was disrupted for 1h 31m on August 20, 2026.
Key facts
| Detected | August 20, 2026 · 16:53 UTC |
| Confirmed | 16:53 UTC |
| Resolved | 18:24 UTC |
| Duration | 1h 31m |
| Service | Multiple services · Global |
| Official record | https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/utF3FMFdQfwBzJcGG6vf |
Timeline
- 16:53Z
Detected · Official
Reported directly on GCP's official status page — no earlier independent (crowd / dependency / measurement) signal. - 18:24Z
Resolved
Signal volume fell back below the threshold; the event was closed.
How this was detected
Confirmed by GCP's official status page — no independent (crowd / dependency / measurement) corroboration.