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Multiple Google Cloud services in europe-west2 (London) experienced service disruptions, elevated error rates, API timeouts and processing latency on October 20, 2026, according to Google's incident page. Google's preliminary incident report records the start at 23:00 US/Pacific on October 19, 2026 (06:00 UTC on October 20) and the end at 05:10 US/Pacific on October 20 (12:10 UTC) - 6 hours 10 minutes.

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Some users in Germany and the United Kingdom who reach Microsoft 365 through Global Secure Access (GSA) may have been unable to use Outlook, Outlook on the web, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams and Windows 365 Cloud PCs on October 13, 2026, according to Microsoft's service health updates as recorded by IncidentHub. Microsoft's final update records the start at 07:40 UTC and the end at 18:31 UTC the same day - about 10 hours 51 minutes - and narrows the geographic scope to Germany only.

Google Cloud Storage in us-central1 (Iowa) had elevated latency and error rates on upload and write operations on October 8, 2026, and a smaller subset of reads was also affected, according to Google's incident page. Google records the start at 11:00 UTC and the end at 23:30 UTC the same day - 12 hours 30 minutes. The outage report - fetched on October 12, 2026 - includes a preliminary incident report as of this writing.

Railway-hosted domains returned HTTP 404 to new connections in all four Railway regions on September 30, 2026, for about five minutes between roughly 07:35 and 07:40 UTC. This happened after a new version of Railway's routing service went live before the database schema change it depended on had been applied.