Google Cloud outage disrupts Revolut and UK services
A glitch in Google Cloud caused issues with Revolut and other services.
Consensus
- A large-scale outage occurred in Google Cloud's europe-west2 region on October 20.
- The outage affected Revolut's operations in multiple European countries.
- The outage impacted other services in the UK, including banks, government websites, and retail platforms.
- The outage was caused by a power failure.
- Services were gradually restored after the incident.
- The europe-west2 region is located in London.
Points of divergence
- BBC reported the outage affecting Revolut and other services in the UK. — vesti
- Sky News reported that customers of Halifax, HSBC, Lloyds Bank, and Bank of Scotland experienced issues. — vm
- The outage also affected VPN services in Russia and the Discord platform earlier in October. — vm
- DownDetector reported issues with DHL in Germany, Booking.com in Italy and Spain, and the Netherlands' tax website. — tg_bbcrussian
Coverage (6 sources)
- Google Cloud outage in London caused issues for Revolut customers worldwide — Meduza
- Google Cloud malfunction: dozens of services unavailable, including Revolut bank In the morning on Tuesday, October 20... — BBC News Русская служба
- Reason for major outage of several services in Europe revealed — Вести
- Glitch in Google Cloud caused issues with Revolut and other services — Вечерняя Москва
- Google Cloud malfunction: dozens of services unavailable, including Revolut bank — BBC News Русская служба
- Google Cloud glitch disrupted apps and websites in UK — Москва 24
Key entities
- Revolut
- Great Britain
- Google Cloud
- BBC
- Moscow
- London
- Europe
- Latvia
- Malta
- Bloomberg
- Darya Myasina
- Lloyds
- Sboi
- HSBC