Google investigates Europewest2 service disruption

Google said Tuesday that multiple services in its Europewest2 region were experiencing problems, as Revolut and other online services reported disruptions affecting customers in Britain. Google said its engineering team was investigating the incident, but the available information did not establish that every reported outage had the same cause. The affected region is identified in the reports as serving London. Google’s status information described issues across multiple services, with errors and intermittent network failures reported. The company did not provide a confirmed restoration time in the material available Tuesday morning. Revolut said multiple services were disrupted and that customers’ money and data were safe. The digital bank said it was working to fix the problem. Its status page showed most services unavailable or partially unavailable, including card payments and ATM withdrawals. A person familiar with the matter told Reuters the Revolut disruption was related to the Google Cloud incident; the full connection between the cloud problems and other service reports was not confirmed. Customers also reported trouble accessing services including Lloyds Bank, HSBC,...