Google incident

**Summary** Google Cloud Storage customers are experiencing elevated latencies and error rates when performing upload or write operations **Description** We are experiencing an issue with Google Cloud Storage beginning on Thursday, 2026-10-08 05:19 PDT. Initial mitigations applied by our engineering team leading to observable improvements in error rates in our internal monitoring beginning 10:57 PDT. Work remains underway to roll out further mitigations. We will provide an update by Thursday, 2026-10-08 12:45 PDT with current details. **Customer Symptoms** * Customers are experiencing elevated latencies and error rates when performing upload or write operations. * A smaller subset of read operations may also experience increased latency and errors **Workaround** None at this time.