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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Paying with the card and withdrawing money from the counters, for Revolut users, Tuesday, October 20 was not possible. The online services of the bank are not operational and since the morning there have been problems of authentication on the app and on the online site. At the origin of the problems there are interruptions of services of Google Cloud in the region of London. We are currently encountering a interruption that affects several servi…
Google Cloud outage hits UK banks – WTOP News
LONDON (AP) — Online services for a number of U.K. banks in and around London were disrupted by a Google Cloud outage Tuesday. The cloud outages began just after 2 a.m., or 6:08 a.m. GMT. The center of the outage is London, but the impact can extend outside of the U.K. if apps in other...
Revolut outage and Google Cloud error: credit card payments, transfers and withdrawals may also be affected. We show you what happened and what you can do.
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