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Google Cloud vs Vultr: which is more reliable? (2026)
Vultr is more reliable than Google Cloud, scoring 90.0 vs 45.5 out of 100. Over the last 90 days Google Cloud reported 4 incidents and Vultr reported 0, with effective uptime of 98.90% and 100% respectively.
Data updated Nov 2, 2026 · How we score
| Metric | Google Cloud | Vultr |
|---|---|---|
| Reliability score | 45.5 | 90.0 |
| Rank (cloud providers) | #6 | — |
| Uptime (90 days) | 98.90% | 100% |
| Incidents (90 days) | 4 | 0 |
| Partial / major outages | 4 | 0 |
| Avg time to resolve | 10h 56m | — |
| Outages we detected | 0 | 0 |
| Transparency score | Collecting data | 50/100 |
Where Google Cloud and Vultr differ
- Vultr reported no incidents in the last 90 days, while Google Cloud reported 4.
- Google Cloud had 4 partial or major outages, compared with 0 for Vultr.
90-day uptime
Google Cloud
Vultr
- No incidents
- Degraded
- Partial outage
- Major outage
- No data
Recent Google Cloud incidents
- Partial outageOct 20, 2026 · resolved in 6h 8m
Multiple services were experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region.official update ↗
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Data Fusion, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore +32 more
- Partial outageOct 8, 2026 · resolved in 1d 5h
Google Cloud Storage (GCS) customers experienced elevated latencies and error rates when performing upload or write operations.official update ↗
Affected: Google Cloud Storage
- Partial outageSep 1, 2026 · resolved in 4h 10m
Multiple products in us-central1-b are experiencing network service degradation.official update ↗
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Run, Cloud Spanner +10 more
- Major outageAug 20, 2026 · resolved in 3h 40m
We are investigating an issue where customers may experience timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products in the us-west1 region.official update ↗
Affected: AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, Apigee Edge Public Cloud, Apigee X, Artifact Registry, BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Build +21 more
Recent Vultr incidents
No incidents reported by Vultr in the last 90 days.
Other cloud providers to consider
- IBM Cloud · #1 · 100% uptime
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) · #2 · 99.76% uptime
- UpCloud · #3 · 99.70% uptime
- Hetzner Cloud · #4 · 99.75% uptime