Is GCP africa-south1 down right now?
Live status for the Google Cloud Platform Africa (Johannesburg) region (africa-south1), located in South Africa. We probe a public GCP endpoint in this region every few minutes from outside GCP's own infrastructure.
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About GCP africa-south1
GCP africa-south1 (Africa (Johannesburg)) is one of Google Cloud Platform's smaller-footprint regions in South Africa. It is most often used for African-region workloads where local presence matters, which means an outage here tends to surface as customer-facing issues for those workloads first. What makes africa-south1 distinct is that it is a smaller geographic-coverage region for South Africa. This page tracks reachability and latency from outside Google Cloud Platform's own network, so a regional issue can be visible here before it lands on the official GCP status page.
For wider service-level context, see the global GCP status.
Why this may differ from the official GCP status page
Official status pages can lag real incidents by several minutes. This page reflects what an external client sees right now.