Outage report · Partial outage

Google Cloud outage on Jul 15, 2026

Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, and Bare Metal Solutions (BMS) services are experiencing a service outage in europe-west4-a due to a cooling failure.

SeverityPartial outage

StartedJul 15, 2026, 23:57UTC

ResolvedJul 16, 2026, 12:25UTC

Duration12h 28m

What happened

Google Cloud reported a partial outage starting Jul 15, 2026, 23:57 UTC, affecting Bare Metal Solution, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, VMWare engine. It was marked resolved at Jul 16, 2026, 12:25 UTC.

The incident lasted 12h 28m from first report to resolution.
It was the 3rd longest of 7 significant outages Google Cloud reported in the 12 months up to it.
Google Cloud had reported 2 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
12 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from Google Cloud

## \# Incident Report ## \#\# Summary On Wednesday, 15 July 2026, Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), Bare Metal Solution (BMS), and Google Cloud NetApp Volumes (GCNV) experienced service interruptions for a total duration of 14 hours, 55 minutes. The root cause for this outage is a 3ms voltage drop in the power feed from the utility provider and subsequent utility breaker protective action. This incident was mitigated by the data center provider rectifying the failed systems followed by the Google engineering team restoring the services. ## \#\# Root Cause A regional data center hosting services in europe-west4-a experienced an upstream voltage transient affecting both utility power feeds A and B. During this event, the utility breakers on both A and B feeds tripped and initiated the transfer to the back-up power source DRUPS (Diesel Rotary Uninterruptible Power Supply). The transition of side B to DRUPS system was successful without any power interruption. The DRUPS back-up power syst

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