On October 20, 2026, Google Cloud encountered a significant service disruption in the europe-west2 region, centered within the europe-west2-b availability zone in London. This outage led to multi-hour interruptions and degraded storage and compute services used by a broad range of customers. Those impacted encompassed sectors such as banking, retail, and the public sector, highlighting the outage's extensive reach. Google Cloud's Service Health team confirmed the disruption and provided pertinent incident details to keep users informed about the ongoing situation and recovery efforts.