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// Incident Post-MortemDRN-5750A852

Google Cloud outage on July 16, 2026

Major severityResolved2h 59mCloud
Started · UTC
Jul 16, 03:34 AM
3h ago
Resolved · UTC
Jul 16, 06:33 AM
28m ago
Duration
2h 59m
End-to-end
Peak confidence
80.00
154 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 2h 59m. The stored report window does not show a preserved user-report spike.

// What happened

Current signals are mixed for Google Cloud infrastructure. Downrightnow's checks are limited due to minimal user reports and quiet chatter, with no official incident open. Regional network and data show no major anomalies, and all GCP regions are reported as healthy.

Cached · Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 06:50 AM UTC · scope: this incident

// 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. Status changed to Possible Issues

    The stored readout moved to Possible Issues with confidence 34.00.

  3. Marked resolved

    The incident was closed after 2h 9m of observed impact.

  4. 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 154 stored status snapshots.

User reports

0 / 15m

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

Status samples

32 affected

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

Recovery signal

Resolved

Recovery was recorded at Thu, Jul 16, 2026, 06:33 AM UTC.