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// Incident Post-MortemDRN-8DD50DD9

Google Cloud outage on July 16, 2026

Major severityActive1h 32mCloud
Started · UTC
Jul 16, 03:34 AM
2h ago
Status
Active
Still ongoing
Duration
1h 32m
So far
Peak confidence
80.00
98 snapshots
// User impact

Google Cloud users likely saw failed connections, degraded availability, or session instability for this Cloud service. The incident reached Major severity and lasted 1h 32m. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.

// What happened

Incident began at 2026-07-15 16:57 (all times are US/Pacific).Summary Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, and Bare Metal Solutions (BMS) services are experiencing temperature alerts in europe-west4-a. Description GCVE: Our engineering teams are currently working with data center facility teams to address the rising temperatures. A shutdown has already occurred for some private clouds, and we expect that others will shut down as well. We recommend shutting down your VMware workload VMs for precaution so that recovery is safer. A shutdown of all systems started at 19:

Deterministic readout · awaiting AI summary pass

// Timeline
  1. Incident detected

    Major confidence crossed the incident threshold for Google Cloud: google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, and Bare Metal Solutions (BMS) services are experiencing temperature alerts in europe-west4-a..

  2. Marked resolved

    The incident was closed after 1h 32m of observed impact.

  3. Status changed to Possible Issues

    The stored readout moved to Possible Issues with confidence 34.00.

// Signals by source1 sources
  • Cloud scope

    Cloud impact scope: [Object Object], Provider-level impact correlation flagged this scope.

    [Object Object]
// Aggregate evidence

Confidence scoring

80.00

The incident reached 80.00 peak confidence across 98 stored status snapshots.

User reports

0 / 15m

No elevated user-report volume was preserved in the incident window snapshots.

Status samples

16 affected

16 snapshots in the window showed degraded, recovering, or major-outage state before recovery.

Recovery signal

Resolved

Recovery was recorded at Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 05:06 AM UTC.