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europe-west1 Sandbox Provisioning Restored

We are happy to inform you that the issue affecting sandbox provisioning in the europe-west1 region has been resolved. The region is now fully operational and sandboxes will resume provisioning in europe-west1 as expected for both manual and hot start plays.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and thank you for your patience.

europe-west1 Sandbox Provisioning Restored

We are happy to inform you that the issue affecting sandbox provisioning in the europe-west1 region has been resolved. The region is now fully operational and sandboxes will resume provisioning in europe-west1 as expected for both manual and hot start plays.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused and thank you for your patience.

The performance issue affecting lab start times has been resolved. All services are operating normally. Thank you for your patience.

We're seeing that GCP Cloud DNS response latencies in europe-west1 have returned to normal levels, and sandbox provisioning in the region has been re-enabled.

We will continue to monitor the situation closely and take appropriate action if the issue reoccurs.

We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience while we worked to resolve this issue.

The issue was confirmed and resolved by Google Engineering team at 2026-03-05 22:30 UTC. The last errors we received were one hour prior at 21:30 UTC. To confirm, less than 0.1% of plays were affected.

The root cause according to the Google Engineers was due to an internal operation reaching an internal quota in the us-central1-a zone. The issue was mitigated by increasing the internal quota.

We will continue to monitor for these specific issues going forward.