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Google Cloud London outage disrupts major services, no recovery time given · 2 sources tracked

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Google Cloud experienced a significant outage in its London data centers, affecting multiple services and clients. The disruption, centered around the europe-west2-b zone, impacted major financial institutions like Lloyds Bank and HSBC, as well as Royal Mail and Revolut. As of the reports, there was no estimated recovery time or immediate workarounds available for the affected services. AI

IMPACT Disruptions to major cloud infrastructure can impact AI services relying on these platforms for compute and data processing.

RANK_REASON The cluster describes an infrastructure outage affecting a cloud provider's services, which falls under the 'tool' category as it relates to the operational availability of technology infrastructure.

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Google Cloud London outage disrupts major services, no recovery time given · 2 sources tracked

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. The Register — AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Paul Kunert ·

    Google Cloud's London zones takes a nap, multiple services disrupted

    Lloyds, HSBC, Royal Mail, Revolut all hit as europe-west2-b falls over. No recovery time in sight, 'no workarounds for now'

  2. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Google Cloud's London zones takes a nap, multiple services disrupted Lloyds, HSBC, Royal Mail, Revolut all hit as europe-west2-b falls over. No recovery time in

    Google Cloud's London zones takes a nap, multiple services disrupted Lloyds, HSBC, Royal Mail, Revolut all hit as europe-west2-b falls over. No recovery time in sight, 'no workarounds for now' https://www. theregister.com/paas-and-iaas/ 2026/10/20/google-clouds-london-zones-takes…

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