{
  "id": 15732749,
  "title": "Google Cloud down - major outage across Europe hits big brands, banking apps and more",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/google-cloud-down-major-outage-across-europe-hits-big-brands-banking",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-20T09:36:16.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TechRadar",
    "slug": "techradar",
    "url": "https://www.techradar.com/pro/live/google-cloud-down-major-outage-across-europe-hits-big-brands-banking-apps-and-more"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Google Cloud is currently experiencing a significant outage across much of Europe, affecting numerous services and causing issues for major brands and banking applications. The company has confirmed that multiple services are experiencing problems in the europe-west2 region, with user reports surging on the DownDetector outage tracker site. The issues were first reported at 10:24 am BST/02:24 am PST on October 19, 2026.\n\nDownDetector is showing a sharp increase in user reports of problems with Google Cloud, although numbers have slightly decreased since the initial spike. Other companies, such as major banking apps Revolut and Lloyds Bank in the UK, appear to be affected as well. Google Cloud's status page currently displays multiple orange alerts, indicating that several systems are down and that many regions across Europe are impacted. Affected services include critical business tools like BigQuery, App Engine, Looker, SQL, and many more.\n\nAs the situation unfolds, Google Cloud has promised an update on its status page, stating that they are experiencing an issue with multiple services in the europe-west2 region, beginning on October 19, 2026, at 11:08 pm PDT. Their engineering team continues to investigate the issue, and they aim to provide an update by October 20, 2026, at 04:00 am PDT, with current details. The tech giant apologizes to all customers affected by the disruption.",
  "summary": "Google Cloud is currently having issues across Europe, affecting multiple other sites.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "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."
}