Google says Cloud in its London region is "experiencing issues" starting on Monday at 23:08 PDT; a source says a major Revolut outage is due to Google Cloud

If you rely on Google Cloud's London region, you are experiencing significant downtime impacting a wide range of services and may need to activate disaster recovery plans.

Google Cloud's London region (europe-west2) began experiencing widespread service disruptions on Monday, October 19, 2026, at 23:08 PDT. A power event affected the europe-west2-b zone, leading to service outages and intermittent network issues for numerous services including AlloyDB for PostgreSQL, BigQuery, Compute Engine, and Kubernetes Engine. A source indicated that the major outage experienced by financial services company Revolut was a result of this Google Cloud issue. Google's engineering team mitigated the power event and reported partial infrastructure mitigation within 30 minutes, with other services expected to recover subsequently. Customers were advised to consider migrating workloads to other available zones or regions as a workaround.

This extensive outage across Google Cloud's London region highlights the critical dependencies businesses have on major cloud providers and the cascading effects of infrastructure failures. The incident underscores the importance of robust disaster recovery and multi-region strategies, especially for mission-critical services like those offered by Revolut. The breadth of affected services points to potential architectural vulnerabilities or a lack of sufficient redundancy in the europe-west2 region.

The incident serves as a stark reminder for companies operating in the cloud to rigorously test failover mechanisms and consider the financial and reputational costs associated with prolonged downtime. While Google is working to mitigate the issue, the disruption implies that current architectures may not adequately shield all services from single-point-of-failure events within a specific cloud region.