Recovery work for the facility issue in us-east2-a is ongoing. The remaining affected hardware will stay powered off until required facility work and safety inspections are complete. We don’t have an estimated restoration time yet, and we’ll share one as soon as those inspections are done.
In the meantime, we’re restoring affected instances on other available capacity in us-east2-a where possible, and a number of instances are already back online. If your instances are affected, our customer success team is in contact with you directly. We’ll post another update by 23:00 UTC
Posted Oct 15, 2026 - 19:20 UTC
Identified
We’ve started restoring power to part of the affected hardware in us-east2-a, and some instances will begin to come back online. The rest of the affected hardware will stay powered off while the facility issue is being remediated. Our teams are actively working on recovery, and we’ll post updates as events warrant.
Posted Oct 15, 2026 - 16:03 UTC
Update
As a safety precaution, we’ve shut off power to the affected hardware in us-east2-a. Instances running on that hardware are now powered off. Power won’t be restored until the area has been confirmed safe. Our teams are working on recovery, and we’ll post another update within 90 minutes.
Posted Oct 15, 2026 - 13:50 UTC
Investigating
We’re investigating an issue at one of our data center facilities that is affecting a subset of compute instances in us-east2-a. Some instances are currently unavailable. As a safety precaution, we’re powering down some additional hardware in the affected area. Instances on that hardware will become unavailable during this time. Our teams are actively working on this, and we’ll post another update within 30 minutes.
Posted Oct 15, 2026 - 13:12 UTC
This incident affects: GPU Virtual Machines (us-east2) and Networking (Datacenter Networking).