Is Google Cloud down?
Updated Oct 08, 2026 11:24 UTC. StatusBird re-checks Google Cloud's status page every 2 minutes.
- Current state
- Operational
- Changed
- Jul 10, 2026 11:26 UTC
- Held for
- 89 days 23 hours
Google Cloud is currently operational as of Oct 08, 2026 11:24 UTC, with no outage reported on its official status page. StatusBird reads Google Cloud's status page every 2 minutes and, on the Pro plan, alerts subscribers by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord within that cycle; the free email alert on this page covers major and critical outages with no account.
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Google Cloud uptime and incident history
30-day uptime, from checks every 2 minutes.
Over the past 90 days StatusBird recorded 0 major or critical Google Cloud incidents totalling 0 minutes of downtime, for 100.00% availability and a A+ reliability grade, across 64,661 independent checks. Full history: Google Cloud reliability report.
Google Cloud's 90-day uptime of 100.00% is above the Infrastructure category average of 99.21% across the 4 services StatusBird monitors in that category.
Google Cloud risk in the next 24 hours
StatusBird's stack risk model puts the chance of any Google Cloud degradation in the next 24 hours at 2% (normal) and the chance of a major or critical outage at 0% (normal). It is scored every 10 minutes from four inputs: how often Google Cloud has had an episode over the last 180 days, whether it has had one in the last 24 hours or 7 days, how often its degradations turn into major outages, and whether the infrastructure it runs on is having trouble right now.
- no degraded-or-worse episodes in the last 180 days
- no major outages in the last 180 days
Scored Oct 08, 2026 11:16 UTC, and rescored every 10 minutes. Method: how StatusBird measures and scores.
How do I get notified when Google Cloud has an outage?
Three options, from free to full coverage. Plan details are as published on StatusBird's pricing page and status.cloud.google.com as of October 08, 2026.
- Free email alert on this page. The form above emails you when Google Cloud enters a major or critical outage and again when it recovers. No account, no card.
- A StatusBird account. The free plan monitors 1 service with a live dashboard and a day-after incident digest. Pro ($29/month) checks all 84 services every 2 minutes and alerts by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord, with quiet hours and per-service thresholds; Business is $49/month and Agency $99/month. Create a free account.
- Google Cloud's own status page. status.cloud.google.com offers the subscription options on status.cloud.google.com, where available. It is the official record and worth subscribing to alongside any monitor; it updates when Google Cloud confirms an incident.
Full guide: Best downtime alert services for online store owners (2026).
About Google Cloud
Google's cloud computing platform. Google Cloud outages affect many of the third-party services your e-commerce stack relies on for core functionality.
StatusBird monitors Google Cloud every 2 minutes, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. When an outage or degradation is detected, StatusBird sends instant alerts so you can act before your customers notice. The 30-day uptime percentage and incident history above reflect live data from our monitoring network.
Google Cloud last five incidents
StatusBird recorded zero non-operational Google Cloud readings in the last 90 days, across 64,661 checks every 2 minutes.
What to do when Google Cloud is down
A Google Cloud outage is not something you can fix, but how you respond in the first 15 minutes decides how much it costs you. This guide covers confirming the outage, limiting the damage, and keeping customers informed.
How do I confirm Google Cloud is actually down?
Check two independent sources before changing anything in your store. First, StatusBird's live Google Cloud status page, which is based on independent checks every 2 minutes. Second, Google Cloud's own status page at status.cloud.google.com/. If the official page still shows green, do not assume you are wrong: vendors often acknowledge incidents well after they start. If both look clean, the problem is more likely your store's configuration or a specific integration.
What does a Google Cloud outage look like?
- Multiple unrelated apps and integrations fail simultaneously
- Your headless storefront or custom backend hosted on GCP returns 5xx errors or times out
- Firebase-based login, notifications, or app features stop working
- BigQuery queries or data pipeline jobs fail or hang
- Vendor status pages for several tools all report incidents at the same time
What breaks in your store
A Google Cloud outage cascades: any storefront, app, or integration hosted on the affected GCP region or service can become slow or unreachable at the same time. For a store this can look like several unrelated tools failing at once, such as a headless frontend on Cloud Run going down while a review widget and an analytics pipeline also stop responding. Firebase-backed features like authentication or push notifications can also fail. Because so many vendors build on GCP, the blast radius often extends well beyond anything with Google in the name.
For context, Google Cloud has had no major incidents in the last 90 days of StatusBird's independent monitoring (100.0% availability), so a real outage is unusual. That makes it easy to mistake one for a problem on your end, which is why confirming first matters.
What to do during the outage
- Check status.cloud.google.com to identify which GCP services and regions are affected before debugging your own code.
- If your workload is multi-region, fail over traffic to an unaffected region.
- Post a notice on your store or social channels if customer-facing features are degraded.
- Queue failed background jobs and data syncs for replay instead of dropping them.
- Hold off on deploys and infrastructure changes until Google declares the incident resolved.
These steps follow the same logic Google codifies in its Site Reliability Engineering chapter on managing incidents: establish what is actually happening, contain the damage, and communicate clearly while the incident is still running.
Frequently asked questions
My store is not hosted on Google Cloud, so why are things breaking during a GCP outage?
Many of the SaaS apps your store relies on run their own backends on GCP. When a major GCP service or region fails, those vendors go down with it, so you see review widgets, chat tools, or analytics failing even though your storefront host is fine.
Is there anything I can do to speed up recovery during a Google Cloud outage?
Not on Google's side; recovery is entirely in their hands. Your job is to confirm which of your tools are affected, communicate with customers if anything visible is broken, and make sure queued jobs and orders replay cleanly once service returns.
After the outage
Once Google Cloud recovers, verify the affected workflows end to end rather than trusting the status page. Note the start and end times while they are fresh: if you are on a paid Google Cloud plan with an SLA, documented downtime is what a service credit claim is built on. See how to claim SLA credits for the process.
How this data is measured
StatusBird checks Google Cloud's status every 2 minutes, around the clock, independently of the vendor. The availability figure counts major and critical outages only; minor degradation is excluded so numbers are not skewed by vendors that report small blips near-continuously. Grades run from A+ to F. See the live numbers on the Google Cloud reliability page and current status on the Google Cloud status page, or browse all 84 service grades.
This playbook was published separately until September 2026. It now lives here, alongside the live Google Cloud status it applies to.
Google Cloud status FAQ
Is Google Cloud down right now?
No. Google Cloud is operational in StatusBird's independent monitoring. That state began Jul 10, 2026 at 11:26 UTC and has lasted 89 days 23 hours. Last checked Oct 08, 2026 at 11:24 UTC.
How often does Google Cloud go down?
StatusBird recorded zero major or critical Google Cloud incidents in the last 90 days, at 100.00% availability and a A+ reliability grade. Minor degradation is excluded from that figure.
What is the chance Google Cloud has a problem in the next 24 hours?
StatusBird's stack risk model puts the chance of any Google Cloud degradation in the next 24 hours at 2% (normal) and the chance of a major or critical outage at 0% (normal). It is scored every 10 minutes from four inputs: how often Google Cloud has had an episode over the last 180 days, whether it has had one in the last 24 hours or 7 days, how often its degradations turn into major outages, and whether the infrastructure it runs on is having trouble right now.
What should I do when Google Cloud goes down?
Confirm the outage is on Google Cloud's side rather than in your store, protect whatever the outage is breaking, and tell affected customers before they find out the hard way. The full step-by-step playbook for a Google Cloud outage is on this page, under 'What to do when Google Cloud is down'.
How do I get notified when Google Cloud goes down?
Use the free email alert form on this page, which needs no account and covers major and critical outages. Or open a StatusBird account: the free plan monitors 1 service with a next-day digest, and Pro at $29 a month checks all 84 services every 2 minutes and alerts by SMS, email, Slack, Teams or Discord, or subscribe to Google Cloud's own status page at status.cloud.google.com.
What should I do when Google Cloud goes down? The full playbook is on this page.
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"Every figure we publish comes from the same 2-minute checks that trigger our customers' alerts. We publish the data exactly as we measured it, and anyone is free to cite it."
Sydney Murphy, founder of StatusBird
Cite this data: StatusBird monitoring data, https://statusbird.io/status/google-cloud, accessed October 08, 2026. See the methodology for how these numbers are measured.
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