**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. Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue. We will provide an update by Thursday, 2026-10-08 11:50 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.