Google Cloud power outage disrupts UK banks and services

A power failure at a Google Cloud data centre near London caused network disruptions across Europe on Tuesday, according to Euronews and The Guardian. Tech giant Google reported that its europe-west2 region suffered elevated error rates and intermittent network failures. The outage hit several British financial institutions, digital banks, and public services. [1][2][3]

Digital bank Revolut suffered widespread disruptions to its app, bank transfers, ATM withdrawals, and card top-ups, Euronews and rte.ie reported. Lloyds Bank and HSBC also confirmed that customers experienced difficulties accessing online services, according to Euronews. The Guardian reported that court video cameras and court services were affected as well. [1][2][5]

Google Cloud offers modular cloud computing services including data storage, analytics, and management tools that run on Google's internal infrastructure. As FTMQ News reported earlier, Revolut confirmed that customer money and data remained secure during the disruption while engineering teams worked on a fix. [13][16]

Google issued an apology for the service failures and announced that an engineering investigation was underway, according to The Guardian and UPI. Euronews reported that Google expected a full recovery of its services around 1300 GMT on Tuesday. [1][2][3]