Control-plane update cuts Google Cloud VMware Engine traffic
A network configuration update dropped inter-site traffic for stretched clusters for nearly 11 hours.
- Service
- Google Cloud VMware Engine
- Date
- 14 July 2026
- Cause
- Configuration change
- Duration
- 10.7 hours
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- minor
- Region
- Global
- Source
- Ideatives cloud outages brief ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Control-plane update cuts Google Cloud VMware Engine traffic”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 14 Jul 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-07-14-google-cloud-vmware-engine-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: Ideatives cloud outages brief, https://ideatives.com/briefs/cloud-outages/.
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