{
  "id": 15747324,
  "title": "Google Cloud says a 'power event' caused today's outage",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/20/google-cloud-says-a-power-event-caused-todays-outage",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-10-20T12:49:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Register Science",
    "slug": "the-register-science",
    "url": "https://www.theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/2026/10/20/google-cloud-says-a-power-event-caused-todays-outage/5304160"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Google Cloud admitted today that a power outage in one of its data centers in London led to widespread service disruptions for customers in Western Europe. The unplanned downtime began at 0608 UTC when the europe-west-2-b availability zone experienced issues, causing a cascade of failures across multiple online products. Google pledged to restore normal service within an hour, with full recovery expected around 1300 UTC. Services affected included BigQuery Data Transfer Service, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Run, Google App Engine, Cloud NetApp Volumes, Kubernetes Engine, and Managed Service for Apache Kafka. Major companies like Lloyds Bank, HSBC, Royal Mail, Rightmove, DPD, BT, Cloudflare, Screwfix, and Revolut were among those impacted. The incident underscores the interconnectivity of cloud ecosystems and the need for robust disaster recovery measures to mitigate the effects of regional failures.",
  "summary": "Fells London zone, taking banks, parcel firm and property sites with it – and recovery is 'tentatively' due by 1300 UTC",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "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."
}