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On October 8, 2026, Google Cloud Storage in us-central1 spent twelve and a half hours returning errors and timeouts on writes. Google's incident report puts the impact from 04:00 to 16:30 US/Pacific, which is 11:00 to 23:30 UTC. Every status update posted during the day carried the same line under Workaround: "None at this time."

Then it came back. The final report adds a second window on October 9, 04:05 to 09:46 Pacific, in the us-central1-b zone, for a total of 18 hours and 11 minutes.

If your service writes user uploads or exports straight to a bucket in that region, that was up to 18 hours in which any write could come back as a 503 or hang until your timeout fired, and the writes that did succeed were slow.…