Google Cloud London power event knocks UK services offline
Original title: Google Cloud Outage Knocks UK Banks, Websites and Court Systems Offline
Cloud Run, App Engine, GKE and Filestore saw errors; most customers recovered, with some cases still open.
A power event in Google Cloud's europe-west2-b zone in London began around 07:08 BST on October 20 and raised error rates and network failures. UK banks including Revolut, Halifax, HSBC and Lloyds reported service problems, and HM Courts and Tribunals Service lost Cloud Video Platform links used for remote hearings. Google said the power event was mitigated and most services recovered, while a small number of customers still had trouble and new workloads could fail during recovery. Google has not explained the power event and promised an incident analysis.
Unconfirmed: Not every reported bank or website failure was independently tied to Google Cloud, and the cause of the power event is unexplained.
- The public dashboard still listed the incident as active that afternoon.
- Revolut said card payments and ATM withdrawals were disrupted but money and data were safe.
- NHS appointment booking via a third-party service failed for some patients and was restored around midday.
- Lloyds did not initially confirm a direct link to Google Cloud.
- Vendors
- Organizations
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- Countries
- United Kingdom
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A Google Cloud outage disrupted UK banks, business websites and court video links on Tuesday, October 20, after a power event hit its London infrastructure. Google later said most affected services had recovered, although a small number of customers still faced problems. The incident began around 07:08 BST in europe-west2, Google’s London cloud region.
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