Flywheel incident
GCP europe-west2 Region Experiencing Degraded Availability
Flywheel experienced a minor incident on October 20, 2026 affecting Flywheel platform, lasting –. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- monitoring Oct 20, 2026, 05:23 AM UTC
Our vendor has identified the service degradation affecting a subset of our customer in the EU region as caused by a power event. They are working to restore services and we will continue to update as more information becomes available.
- scheduled Oct 20, 2026, 07:14 AM UTC
We have received reports of some installs experiencing 522 errors at this time. Our internal teams are currently investigating.
- monitoring Oct 20, 2026, 08:41 AM UTC
We are currently working with our impacted vendor partner who is investigating downtime and 522 errors for a subset of customers in the EU region. Updates will follow when available.
- monitoring Oct 20, 2026, 10:34 AM UTC
We are still working with our impacted vendor who is continuing to investigate cause of downtime for a subset of our customers in the EU region. For direct vendor updates please see: https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/Xs2XTHzAVC9YnafnPyzj
- resolved Oct 20, 2026, 06:26 PM UTC
Our vendor has successfully restored their services affected by recent power outage. We have seen a full recovery of the subset of sites within the EU region post-vendor service restoration.