Google says 'multiple' Cloud services suffer network failures in Europe

On Tuesday, multiple Google Cloud services were experiencing severe network disruptions in London, according to Google's service health website. British digital bank Revolut reported disruption to several services, which a source close to the situation linked to the Google Cloud outage. Google confirmed that multiple services in the europe-west2 region were experiencing elevated errors and intermittent network failures in its London data centre.

Internet tracker Downdetector reported hundreds of complaints about problems affecting UK lenders Lloyds bank, HSBC, property website Rightmove, and postal service Royal Mail. The incident began at 06:08 GMT. Revolut's spokesperson stated the bank was working to resolve the issue and apologized for any inconvenience caused. They assured customers that all their money and data remained safe.

Google's website noted that its engineering team was continuing to investigate the issue but provided no reason for the disruption.