LONDON, October 20 2026, Multiple Google Cloud services experienced significant network disruptions at the company’s London data centre on Tuesday, affecting several businesses and online services, according to Google’s service health website.
Google reported elevated error rates and intermittent network failures in its europe-west2 region, which covers its London data centre. The incident began at 6.08am GMT.
British digital bank Revolut confirmed disruptions to several of its services, with a source close to the matter attributing the issue to the Google Cloud outage.
Internet monitoring platform Downdetector also recorded hundreds of reports of problems affecting British lenders Lloyds Bank and HSBC, property website Rightmove and postal service Royal Mail.
A Revolut spokesperson said the bank had been working to resolve the issue since it was identified and apologised to customers for the inconvenience.
The spokesperson added that customers’ money and data remained safe.
Google said its engineering team was continuing to investigate the disruption but did not immediately provide a reason for the network failures.
-MALAYMAIL
