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// Incident Post-MortemDRN-015F0D1D

Google Cloud outage on July 18, 2026

Major severityResolved2h 59mCloud
Started · UTC
Jul 18, 12:22 AM
4h ago
Resolved · UTC
Jul 18, 03:21 AM
1h ago
Duration
2h 59m
End-to-end
Peak confidence
80.00
149 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

Google Cloud appears to be operating normally based on current signals. DNS is no recent DNS check, user reports are quiet. All 41 GCP regions are reporting healthy.

Cached · Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 03:31 AM UTC · scope: this incident

// Timeline

  1. Incident detected

    Major confidence crossed the incident threshold for Google Cloud: rESOLVED: Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, and Bare Metal Solutions (BMS) services are experiencing a service outage in europe-west4-a due to a cooling ….

  2. Marked resolved

    The incident was closed after 2h 59m of observed impact.

// 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 149 stored status snapshots.

User reports

0 / 15m

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

Status samples

0 affected

The incident row exists, but the bounded snapshot window does not include affected status samples.

Recovery signal

Resolved

Recovery was recorded at Sat, Jul 18, 2026, 03:21 AM UTC.