{
  "id": 15744558,
  "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-15744558",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-20T11:57:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Malaysia Today",
    "slug": "free-malaysia-today",
    "url": "https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/business/2026/10/20/google-says-multiple-cloud-services-suffer-network-failures-in-europe"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Google reported that multiple cloud services were experiencing network failures across Europe, specifically at its London data center, on Tuesday. According to the company's service health website, these disruptions affected various Google Cloud services in the europe-west2 region. British digital bank Revolut confirmed it was encountering disruptions to multiple services, attributing the issue to the Google Cloud outage. Other reported issues included problems affecting UK lenders Lloyds Bank and HSBC, property website Rightmove, and postal service Royal Mail. The incident reportedly began at 6:08 am. Google stated that its engineering team was actively investigating the issue but provided no specific reason for the disruption. Revolut's spokesman assured customers that all their money and data remained safe and expressed apologies for any inconvenience caused.",
  "summary": "Internet service tracker Downdetector recorded hundreds of reports of problems affecting UK lenders Lloyds Bank and HSBC, as well as property website Rightmove.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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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."
}