Google Cloud reported an active disruption in its London region on Oct. 20, 2026, leaving services unavailable in one zone and creating errors elsewhere in the region. The incident affects businesses relying on the listed cloud infrastructure, database and networking services.
In a 7:58 a.m. Eastern update, Google attributed the outage in the europe-west2-b zone to a power event. It said the power event had been mitigated, while service recovery remained underway. That is not a declaration that all affected services have recovered.
Recovery remains in progress
The incident page records a start time equivalent to 2:08 a.m. Eastern on Oct. 20. Google said some services across europe-west2 could experience elevated errors and intermittent network problems.
Google said services were recovering and it was prioritizing existing workloads. Customers might still be unable to create new workloads. It tentatively targeted 9 a.m. Eastern for full recovery of existing workloads and scheduled another update by that time. That was an estimate, not confirmed restoration.
Google listed affected products including Compute Engine, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud SQL and Cloud Storage. Its suggested workaround was to move affected workloads to another available zone or region where feasible.
Regional scope matters
Reuters also reported the London disruption. The confirmed scope should not be described as a worldwide Google Cloud failure.
Customers should check the provider’s live incident record against their own affected resources. A mitigated power problem and a restored application are different milestones; this report reflects the status available at publication.