# New namespace creation restricted across few GCP regions. Impacted regions are us-central1 and europe-west3

- Provider: [Temporal Cloud](https://down.guide/providers/temporal-cloud)
- Confidence: Confirmed
- Impact: Degraded
- monitoring a fix, open 26d 8h
- started 2026-10-15 17:12 UTC
- Capacity
- eu, europe-west3, us, us-central1
- id: DWN-e9f290baf4
- Official page: https://stspg.io/wxkv5svcdfbp

## Summary
Temporal Cloud says new namespace creation is temporarily restricted in GCP regions us-central1 and europe-west3 due to compute capacity constraints, while existing namespaces operate normally. The incident is in monitoring.

_Written by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5 from Temporal Cloud's own updates._

## Updates from Temporal Cloud
### 2026-10-15 17:12 UTC: monitoring
We have temporarily restricted new Temporal Cloud namespace creation across few GCP regions due to compute capacity constraints. Impacted regions are us-central1 and europe-west3. Existing namespaces continue to operate normally.
For details, available alternatives, and how to request an exception, see https://docs.temporal.io/evaluate/cloud/regions#gcp-capacity-restriction

### 2026-11-09 20:04 UTC: monitoring
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.

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