We are experiencing an issue with Google Compute Engine VM Instance creation and deletion in us-central1 starting at 12:13 US/Pacific.

[Google Cloud Platform Status]

Description: We are beginning to see recovery from applying the mitigation. We are continuing to monitor and exploring methods of increasing the rate of recovery.

Current list of known impacted products in us-central1:
Compute Engine
Kubernetes Engine
App Engine Flex
Cloud Functions
Cloud AI
Cloud SQL
Cloud Memorystore
Cloud Filestore
Cloud Dataproc
Cloud Dataflow

We will provide an update by Thursday, 2021-02-18 15:45 US/Pacific with current details.

Diagnosis: Users may be unable to create new instances in us-central1, any products that rely on creating GCE instances in us-central1 as part of a workflow may also see an increase in errors. Delete operations may also experience latency.

Workaround: None at this time.

[Google Cloud Platform Status]

Description: We believe the issue with Google Compute Engine VM instance creation and deletion is partially resolved. New VM instance creation requests as of 15:14 US/Pacific should succeed. We are working through a backlog of creation requests that should complete in the next few hours.

Current list of known impacted products in us-central1:
Compute Engine
Kubernetes Engine

Cloud AI
Cloud SQL
Cloud Dataproc

We will provide an update by Thursday, 2021-02-18 16:30 US/Pacific with current details.

Diagnosis: Users impacted by this may have been unable to create new instances in us-central1, any products that rely on creating GCE instances in us-central1 as part of a workflow may also have seen an increase in errors. Delete operations may also have experienced latency.

Workaround: Retrying operations may succeed.