Fibre maintenance disrupts 33 Google Cloud products
Congestion after fibre work degraded Compute Engine, GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage and IAM for 2 hours 22 minutes.
- Service
- Google Cloud us-west1
- Date
- 20 August 2026
- Cause
- Network
- Duration
- 2.4 hours
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- Shattered.io ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Fibre maintenance disrupts 33 Google Cloud products”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 20 Aug 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-08-20-google-cloud-us-west1-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: Shattered.io, https://shattered.io/google-cloud-outage-33-services-2026/.
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