Neo4j Aura incident

GCP - Europe West 2 - Partial Outage

Resolved after 7 hours 14 minutes, affecting AuraDB Virtual Dedicated Cloud on GCP (*.databases.neo4j.io) and AuraDB Professional on GCP (*.databases.neo4j.io) and 1 more, on October 20, 2026.

monitoring Oct 20, 2026, 02:06 PM UTC

We are continuing to monitor the situation with GCP at the current time and at this point we have seen no new issues.

Started
Oct 20, 2026, 07:35 AM UTC
Resolved
Oct 20, 2026, 02:50 PM UTC
Duration
7h 14m
Detected by Pingoru
Oct 20, 2026, 07:35 AM UTC

Affected components

AuraDB Virtual Dedicated Cloud on GCP (*.databases.neo4j.io)AuraDB Professional on GCP (*.databases.neo4j.io)AuraDS Enterprise on GCP (*.databases.neo4j.io)AuraDS on GCP (*.databases.neo4j.io)AuraDB Business Critical (*.databases.neo4j.io) on GCP

Update timeline

  1. investigating Oct 20, 2026, 07:35 AM UTC

    We are currently investigating an issue affecting the Europe West 2 region in GCP which is causing databases to become unavailable.

  2. investigating Oct 20, 2026, 08:36 AM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate the issue currently, working with the GCP to find a resolution. At this time some operations, including database instance creation in the region continue to remain impacted.

  3. identified Oct 20, 2026, 09:15 AM UTC

    We have identified the source of the issue currently affecting customers on europe-west2 on GCP. Further details available from GCP statuspage at https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/Xs2XTHzAVC9YnafnPyzj. At this time some operations, including database instance creation in the region continue to remain impacted.

  4. identified Oct 20, 2026, 10:42 AM UTC

    We are currently implementing remedial action to mitigate the issue in the meantime. Follow the latest from GCP in the statuspage at https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/Xs2XTHzAVC9YnafnPyzj.

  5. monitoring Oct 20, 2026, 12:38 PM UTC

    Functionality should now be restored across the affected Aura services. We will monitor the situation closely before considering this resolved.

  6. monitoring Oct 20, 2026, 02:06 PM UTC

    We are continuing to monitor the situation with GCP at the current time and at this point we have seen no new issues.

  7. resolved Oct 20, 2026, 02:50 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved

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