Google Cloud outage on July 16, 2026
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.
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
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..
Marked resolved
The incident was closed after 1h 32m of observed impact.
Status changed to Possible Issues
The stored readout moved to Possible Issues with confidence 34.00.
- Cloud scope
Cloud impact scope: [Object Object], Provider-level impact correlation flagged this scope.
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Confidence scoring
80.00The incident reached 80.00 peak confidence across 98 stored status snapshots.
User reports
0 / 15mNo elevated user-report volume was preserved in the incident window snapshots.
Status samples
16 affected16 snapshots in the window showed degraded, recovering, or major-outage state before recovery.
Recovery signal
ResolvedRecovery was recorded at Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 05:06 AM UTC.