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Google Cloud outage: service recovery underway after power problem causes widespread disruption – latest updates

The Guardian Business·Oct 20, 2026 · 8:02 AM CT
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Google Cloud reported elevated errors and network failures across many services in its europe-west2 (London) region, including Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Run and BigQuery data transfers. The Guardian reports banks, fintech apps and court video systems were affected.

Google later said a "power event" caused an outage in the europe-west2-b zone. The event has been mitigated, services are recovering, and existing workloads are being restored first, though customers may not yet be able to create new ones. The budgeting app Emma said it was back up.

Advisory firm Blick Rothenberg warned that weekly-paid, lower-wage workers who couldn't reach their money on payday, and the hospitality businesses they spend it in, would be hit hardest.

Key points

  • Outage in Google Cloud europe-west2-b (London)
  • Banks, Revolut, Emma and court video systems affected
  • Google: power issue fixed, recovery underway

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