Google Cloud · Iowa (us-central1) outage on 8 October 2026
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“Google Cloud Storage customers are experiencing elevated latencies and error rates when performing upload or write operations.”
On 8 October, Google Cloud Storage in the Iowa (us-central1) region had a major outage in which customers saw elevated latencies and error rates on upload or write operations. The incident began at 18:33 UTC and ended at 00:15 UTC on 9 October, lasting 5 hours 42 minutes. ClassLink, Bling, Python Infrastructure, Cursor and Litmus also reported problems during the same period.
- When
- 18:33–00:15 UTC
- How long
- 5 h 42 min
- Google Cloud · Iowa (us-central1), 30 days before
- No other outages
At the same time
Started in the hour before or during it
And 242 lesser-known services. Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.
Where this comes from
Stackpulse reads Google Cloud · Iowa (us-central1)’s official status page at status.cloud.google.com every minute. The times above are when it reported the problem; the summary is written from its updates and checked against them.
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