{
  "id": 15728064,
  "title": "Google Cloud outage: Revolut suffers service disruption as bank customers report problems – business live",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/google-cloud-outage-revolut-suffers-service-disruption-as-bank",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-20T09:51:33.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Guardian Technology",
    "slug": "guardian-technology",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2026/oct/20/uk-unemployment-rate-pre-budget-boost-wages-vacancies-latest-news-updates"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Google Cloud experienced technical issues in the Europe-West2 region, specifically in London, causing a service disruption that affected various Google Cloud services. These services include BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Run, Google App Engine, Google Cloud Dataflow, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, Google Cloud Pub/Sub, Google Cloud Storage, Google Compute Engine, Google Kubernetes Engine, Looker, Managed Airflow, Managed Service for Apache Kafka, Persistent Disk, Storage Transfer Service. Several financial institutions, including Halifax and Rightmove, reported customer issues related to their apps and online services. Additionally, fintech company Revolut experienced service disruption, which was reportedly linked to the Google Cloud outage.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 12,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "Google Cloud services face outage in London, Revolut services down too",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/google-cloud-services-face-outage-in-london-revolut-services-down-too",
        "published": "2026-10-20T09:11:37.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Sifted",
        "title": "Revolut app down in widespread outage",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/revolut-app-down-in-widespread-outage",
        "published": "2026-10-20T09:58:52.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Mashable",
        "title": "Google Cloud outage: Revolut down as multiple services experience issues",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/google-cloud-outage-revolut-down-as-multiple-services-experience",
        "published": "2026-10-20T10:38:56.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Malay Mail",
        "title": "Google says ‘multiple’ Cloud services suffer network failures in Europe",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/google-says-multiple-cloud-services-suffer-network-failures-in-europe",
        "published": "2026-10-20T10:41:29.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Business Insider",
        "title": "Revolut and other banking apps go down as Google Cloud suffers UK outage",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/revolut-and-other-banking-apps-go-down-as-google-cloud-suffers-uk",
        "published": "2026-10-20T10:56:10.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Quartz",
        "title": "Revolut is facing a service outage as Google Cloud reports issues in London",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/revolut-is-facing-a-service-outage-as-google-cloud-reports-issues-in",
        "published": "2026-10-20T11:20:17.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "IOL",
        "title": "Google says 'multiple' Cloud services suffer network failures in Europe",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/google-says-multiple-cloud-services-suffer-network-failures-in-europe-15738855",
        "published": "2026-10-20T11:35:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Winnipeg Free Press",
        "title": "Google Cloud outage hits UK banks",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/google-cloud-outage-hits-uk-banks",
        "published": "2026-10-20T11:41:15.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Free Malaysia Today",
        "title": "Google says multiple cloud services suffer network failures in Europe",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/google-says-multiple-cloud-services-suffer-network-failures-in-europe-15741468",
        "published": "2026-10-20T11:57:48.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Silicon Republic",
        "title": "Revolut services affected in fresh Google Cloud outage",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/revolut-services-affected-in-fresh-google-cloud-outage",
        "published": "2026-10-20T12:27:12.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Finextra",
        "title": "Google Cloud outage disrupts multiple bank sites",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/google-cloud-outage-disrupts-multiple-bank-sites",
        "published": "2026-10-20T12:37:00.000Z"
      }
    ]
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}