Google Cloud us-west1 down

10•anurag•28m ago

No info on GCP's public status page, but the personalized status page shows this:

August 20, 2026 at 8:53:16 AM UTC-7

We are investigating a multi-product issue in us-west1 region.

Description: We are investigating a potential issue with Persistent Disk, Google Kubernetes Engine, Google Compute Engine, Cloud Run, Google Cloud Bigtable. We will provide more information by Thursday, 2026-08-20 09:20 PDT.

Workaround: No workaround published

Comments

swe_dima•18m ago

I don't understand why they don't update the status page. Been going on for 1+ hour. Is it counted as "uptime"?

firefax•13m ago

>going on for 1+ hour

i thought twitter was the one that had to invent some kind of folksy "shit, the website went down" image?

fastest963•16m ago

It's now been updated to 13 products and still nothing on the public status page.

nwradio•13m ago

Seeing significant impacts to legacy networking VPC's, and a number of error banners in the console right now. We had a number of alerts firing early on starting at 0801 PDT as Google Cloud Metrics started to fail to be reported.

How to Find Undocumented External Connections in Your OT Network

A2A: Adversary to Adversary?

Those Who Removed Code Review Are Right

AI Agent Governance – a free book on AI Agent evaluation and governance

Show HN: Building Table Canon, an AI Campaign Memory Engine for TTRPGs

Webmux: Like Tmux, but for the Browser

EMDR Bilateral Stimulation – Adjusted to You

Ask HN: When AI models use harnesses who liable between model/harness/user?

Agent Applications: A Reference Architecture for AI Agent Systems

Evals Are the Next Bottleneck

RNA droplets may have helped start life on Earth

Loose Navigation Grids

LG Display Develops New OLED Panels with More Brightness and Longer Lifespans

Clicks Communicator: First Look [video]

What breaks when you switch LLMs?

Show HN: The First 3D Map of North America's Underground Geology

Bulgaria's Nuclear Plant Plans First Output Cut Due to Low Danube

DuckDB v2.0: Your Database Deserves a Better Parser

Going Freestanding

Top Open Source MCP Gateways in 2026

AI for science needs reasoning, not just data – Eric Schmidt and Suhas Mahesh

Why can't you combine .tar.gz files with cat?

Same Tencent VPS plan in 8 regions: identical CPU different networks

Under Trump, Protected Wild Horses Are Going to Slaughter

I'm done coding with AI [video]

Show HN: Pacer – Realtime Claude Code Usage Tracking / Pacing

Everyone Says Assembly Is Untyped–Everyone Is Wrong

On Mount Etna, Lightning Has Claimed More Lives Than Eruptions Since 1980

Show HN: RecoveryCodes – MFA inventory for auth outside IdPs

We Ship Our Security Webhook Fail-Open