Immediate fallout Google Cloud’s global load balancers returned 502 errors on Tuesday, forcing a cascade of failures across networking, App Engine and Stackdriver. The outage hit a range of customers, from fintech fir…

The incident began at 12:34 p.m. PT, when Google posted an investigation notice on its status dashboard. By 12:53 p.m. PT the company said a fix was in progress. At 1:03 p.m. PT Google declared the load‑balancer issue…

Technical trigger Google identified the root cause as a malfunction in its global load‑balancing layer that produced HTTP 502 responses. The layer routes traffic to virtual machines and containers across regions. When…

The status page noted that the problem affected both standard and pre‑emptible VM instances in the europe‑west2‑a zone. Persistent Disk devices in that zone briefly ran in single‑redundancy mode. Google’s engineers sh…