Google Cloud Services Face Outage in London, Revolut Services Down Too
Google said multiple cloud services were hit by elevated errors and network failures, leaving customers unable to use banking apps and other online services.
- 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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The disruption is being felt especially in the UK and by Revolut customers, but there are reports of failures in other countries, including Portugal
Issue behind Revolut downage revealed as hundreds of other apps go offline
Google Cloud has taken responsibility for Revolut being down today, with reports emerging that hundreds of websites and apps are now experiencing outages as a result of issues with the digital service. Millions of users were left outraged this morning after they found themselves unable to use Revolut due to a ‘service disruption’. Reports varied […]
Difficulty in payments, withdrawals and access to banking services. There may be a failure in Google's infrastructure at the origin of the inservices. The company reassures: "Denaro and customer data are safe"
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