Fibre cables unplugged by mistake isolate two Google Cloud zones
Routine hardware work disconnected fibre, cutting network access for about 4 hours.
- Service
- Google Cloud us-central1
- Date
- 1 September 2026
- Cause
- Human error
- Duration
- 4.2 hours
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- Ideatives cloud outages brief ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Fibre cables unplugged by mistake isolate two Google Cloud zones”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 1 Sep 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-09-01-google-cloud-us-central1-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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