Google Cloud outage causes disruption across UK banks
Barclays, Bank of Scotland, HSBC, Lloyds and Revolut customers among those reporting problems
A Google Cloud outage triggered by a major systems failure at its London-based data centre is causing disruption across the UK’s banks.
Google Cloud’s service health page said today (October 20) that multiple services were experiencing issues in the Europe-west2 region, and listed London as the affected location. It said the issues began at around 07:00 British Summer Time (06:00 UTC).
In an update to the page at 12:12 BST, Google Cloud said: “Due to a power event we had suffered an outage within
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