Google Cloud Outage Disrupts Financial Services and Business Operations in the UK

10/21/2026

Google Cloud’s London outage disrupted banking apps and business services. Learn what happened and what IT teams should check after service recovery.

10/21/2026

The eight-hour Google Cloud outage hit a range of organizations including banks and delivery services

10/20/2026

Halifax and Revolut among a string of businesses affected by disruption

10/20/2026

Revolut was one of the hardest hit, with banking services going down for many customers.

10/20/2026

The banking platform's service problems stemmed from the disruption at Google Cloud.

10/20/2026

Separately, UK-based financial technology firm Revolut said it was experiencing a service disruption affecting its multiple services. It was not immediately clear if Revolut's outage was related...

10/20/2026

Google Cloud is experiencing service disruptions in London, along with multiple banking apps including Revolut.

10/20/2026

'We can confirm that all our customers’ money and data are safe,' Revolut said in a statement.

10/20/2026

Number of banks report issues

10/20/2026

Regulators will raising their eyebrows at Revolut's operational resilience amid persistence concentration risk fears

10/20/2026

A power event at Google’s London data centre disrupted banks, delivery firms, apps and court video hearings in the UK on Tuesday. Google says services are recovering for most workloads.

10/20/2026

Fells London zone, taking banks, parcel firm and property sites with it – and recovery is 'tentatively' due by 1300 UTC

10/20/2026

Google runs a single UK cloud region, so when one London zone lost power, there was nowhere to failover – most services recovered by late afternoon, but courts are still down

10/20/2026

If you're in the EU or UK, the internet may not be working right this morning. Across the board, Google services including DNS, cloud, and ad serving are struggling. The US is not...

10/20/2026

UPDATE Tuesday, 12:08 p.m. ET: Google said in an update on its Cloud status webpage that most issues have been resolved on its end, with some lingering problems still being worked on."The issue...

10/20/2026

Lloyds, HSBC, Royal Mail, Revolut all hit as europe-west2-b falls over. No recovery time in sight, 'no workarounds for now'

10/20/2026

The disruptions began around 7 a.m. in London after what the tech giant called a "power event."

10/20/2026

Google Cloud confirms outage which is affecing almost all banking and other operations in Europe. The company has shared some early details.

10/20/2026

A disruption to Google Cloud’s London region has affected services at Revolut, Lloyds Bank, HSBC and several UK retailers and delivery companies, with Google advising customers to shift workloads...

10/20/2026

A MAJOR internet outage has taken down a range of websites and apps. Screwfix, Rightmove, DPD, Lloyds Bank and HSBC have all been affected by the issue, according to Down Detector. Over 400...