# Google Cloud · Iowa (us-central1) outage on 8 October 2026

> 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.

- Service: [Google Cloud · Iowa (us-central1)](https://stackpulse.app/services/google-cloud-iowa-us-central1.md)
- Severity: major_outage
- Title on the status page: Google Cloud Storage customers are experiencing elevated latencies and error rates when performing upload or write operations.
- Started: 2026-10-08 18:33 UTC
- Ended: 2026-10-09 00:15 UTC
- Lasted: 5 h 42 min
- Page: https://stackpulse.app/services/google-cloud-iowa-us-central1/outages/2026-10-08-1833

## At the same time

- [ClassLink](https://stackpulse.app/services/classlink.md): issue from 2026-10-08 18:12 UTC
- [Bling](https://stackpulse.app/services/bling.md): major_outage from 2026-10-08 18:22 UTC
- [Python Infrastructure](https://stackpulse.app/services/python-infrastructure.md): issue from 2026-10-08 18:34 UTC
- [Cursor](https://stackpulse.app/services/cursor.md): issue from 2026-10-08 19:53 UTC
- [Litmus](https://stackpulse.app/services/litmus.md): major_outage from 2026-10-08 23:59 UTC

Problems at the same time are a clue, never proof that one caused another.

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