Google Cloud Storage customers are experiencing elevated latencies and error rates when performing upload or write operations.

**Summary** Google Cloud Storage customers are experiencing elevated latencies and error rates when performing upload or write operations **Description** We are continuing to mitigate the issue with Google Cloud Storage in the us-central1 region that began on Thursday, 2026-10-08 05:19 PDT. The initial mitigations applied by our engineering team continue to show observable improvements in error rates. Our engineering team is actively monitoring the environment and rolling out further mitigations to fully stabilize the service. We will provide an update by Thursday, 2026-10-08 14:00 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. (Affected: Google Cloud Storage)