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BigQuery: status and incident history today
Google Cloud Status shows no open incidents right now.
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Status now
No open incidents or maintenance right now.
2 incidents in the last 90 days (1 major). Most recent major: “We are investigating an issue where customers may experience timeouts, service degradations, errors, and elevated latencies across multiple products in the us-…” (2026-08-20).
Alternatives
Snowflake
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Strengths
- Separation of storage and compute
- Zero-copy cloning
Trade-offs
- Vendor lock-in
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Strengths
- Deep AWS ecosystem integration
- Columnar storage for fast analytics
Trade-offs
- AWS vendor lock-in
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Azure Synapse Analytics
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Strengths
- Unified platform (SQL, Spark, data integration)
- Serverless on-demand querying
Trade-offs
- Azure ecosystem lock-in
- Learning curve for all features
Databricks
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Strengths
- Unified data and AI platform
- Built on Apache Spark for big data processing
Trade-offs
- Learning curve for Spark and Delta Lake
- Primarily focused on data engineering/ML (not pure DW)
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