Google Cloud Services Face Outage in London, Revolut Services Down Too
- On Tuesday, Google Cloud confirmed a major outage in Europe affecting Western Europe, with multiple services including BigQuery Data TransferService, Cloud Run, and Google Kubernetes Engine experiencing elevated errors and network failures.
- The disruption stems from an issue within a local availability zone in London designed to protect against hardware failures, creating cascading effects for non-high-availability services and causing DNS connectivity problems.
- DownDetector reports widespread impacts for major customers including Lloyds Bank, HSBC, DPD, and Screwfix, while digital bank Revolut confirmed that customer money and data remain safe despite the disruption.
- Frustrated users vented on Twitter and Reddit, with one describing the "Major GCP incident affecting Europe regions" as a difficult start to the day, while Techies warned of cascading supplier impacts.
- This incident mirrors similar disruptions at Amazon Web Services and Cloudflare in recent years, illustrating centralized infrastructure risks; heavy reliance on few tech firms means a single outage disrupts vast internet swathes.
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What Took Halifax, Revolut Down? Services Restored After Google Cloud Disruption Hit UK Banks
A power-related Google Cloud outage in London disrupted banking services, remote court hearings and business operations, while Google worked to restore remaining affected workloads and investigate the cause.
All services at online bank Revolut have been restored, after the British bank experienced problems earlier in the day due to an outage at Google Cloud. Revolut also has many customers in the Netherlands. Customer funds and data are safe, the company states.
Revolut Services in Singapore Disrupted During Google Cloud Outage
Card payments, ATM withdrawals and currency exchange were affected, with disruption still reported at 10:50pm on 20 October. A later check at around 5am on 21 October found Revolut's Singapore status page listing all systems as operational.
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