Google Cloud outage disrupts Revolut and court video services

Google said a power event in its London-region cloud infrastructure caused an outage on Tuesday, disrupting services including digital bank Revolut and a court video platform. The company said the power event had been mitigated and services were beginning to recover, but did not confirm that recovery was complete. The disruption affected Google Cloud’s europewest2b zone, within the europewest2 region serving London. Google reported elevated errors and intermittent network failures across multiple cloud services. By early afternoon on October 20, it said it was prioritising recovery of existing workloads and tentatively expected them to be restored by 2 p.m. UK time. Google cautioned that customers might still be unable to create new workloads and suggested moving affected workloads to another available zone or region where feasible. Revolut said multiple services were unavailable or partly unavailable, including card payments, transfers, cash withdrawals and account access. The company said customers’ money and data were safe and that it was working to resolve the disruption. More than 1,500 reports of problems with Revolut appeared on Downdetector on Tuesday morning; the...