GCP us-west1 Operational Issues

Update timeline

1. identified Aug 20, 2026, 05:15 PM UTC

   We are currently experiencing service degradation and potential disruptions in the Google Cloud Platform region us-west1. This incident is a result of an ongoing issue with the cloud provider's infrastructure. You will be unable to provision new clusters or nodes. Existing nodes in us-west1 may be unavailable. Cluster datacentres in other regions are unaffected, but are experiencing networking issues when interacting with nodes in us-west1. Individual impacted customers are being contacted via support tickets. We are actively monitoring the situation and will provide additional details as they become available. GCP status is tracked at https://status.cloud.google.com/. If you have an urgent matter, please reach out to us via the support portal (support.instaclustr.com) or email ([email protected]).

2. identified Aug 20, 2026, 05:16 PM UTC

   We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

3. identified Aug 20, 2026, 05:58 PM UTC

   Vertical scaling has been temporarily disabled in the GCP us-west1 region due to this cloud provider outage. We will re-enable this functionality when the cloud provider outage is resolved.

4. monitoring Aug 20, 2026, 07:06 PM UTC

   Google have completed mitigations and are reporting recovery across multiple products. We will continue monitoring the incident until the remaining products have recovered. Vertical scaling remains disabled in us-west1.

5. resolved Aug 20, 2026, 07:46 PM UTC

   This incident has been resolved.