●Incident
Google Cloud Vision API outage.
ResolvedDEGRADATION · HIGHAug 20, 2026, 04:50 PM · about 4 hours ago · Duration: 2h 44min
Incident Summary
External incident reported: We are investigating an issue where customers may experience timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products in the us-west1 region..
Affected components:
- Multiple Products
Timeline
●Started
Aug 20, 2026, 04:50 PM
about 4 hours ago
●Resolved
Aug 20, 2026, 07:35 PM
about 1 hour ago
●Duration
2h 44min
Total downtime
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