{"id":808540,"date":"2026-10-20T11:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808540\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T11:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:18:09","slug":"google-cloud-outage-revolut-and-lloyds-services-disrupted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/808540\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Cloud outage: Revolut and Lloyds services disrupted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tTuesday 20 October 2026 8:58 am<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Updated:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tTuesday 20 October 2026 11:17 am\n\t<\/p>\n<p><img width=\"742\" height=\"495\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/Revolut-Urban-07-New-logo.jpg\" class=\"media \" alt=\"Revolut topped the FOS complaints rankings.\" fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"sync\"  \/>\t\tRevolut was hit with an outage on Tuesday.\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An outage at Google Cloud has led to a major services disruption across British giants on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google Cloud confirmed it was facing \u201cissues\u201d in its \u201ceurope-west2 region,\u201d which refers to London according to the firm\u2019s service table. It has affected dozens of websites across the UK, spanning banks, delivery services and retail brands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The digital banking giant said on Tuesday morning it was experiencing a \u201cservice disruption\u201d across multiple features, as problems were also reported at Lloyds, HSBC and Barclays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Google Cloud confirmed that several of its services were experiencing network failures at its London facility, which provides computing infrastructure to businesses across the UK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMultiple Google Cloud services are experiencing elevated errors and intermittent network failures in europe-west2 region,\u201d Google said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-signup__title\">Stay in the know<\/p>\n<p class=\"newsletter-signup__description\">Three daily briefings with the key market moves and top business and political stories.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a class=\"newsletter-signup__button\" href=\"https:\/\/newsletters.cityam.com\/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=inarticle&amp;utm_campaign=beehiiv&amp;utm_id=newsletter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">SUBSCRIBE HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur engineering team continues to investigate the issue. We apologise to all who are affected by the disruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Downdetector, which is used to track major outages across consumer platforms, showed a spike for Revolut around 8am with more than 1,500 issues reported. It also showed spikes for Lloyds Bank, Rightmove, Royal Mail and HSBC.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRead more<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/revolut-and-nubank-want-to-make-neobanking-their-world\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Revolut and Nubank want to make neobanking their world<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One user said on X that their Revolut <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KristiKumrija\/status\/2112445866401304826?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">card had been declined<\/a> whilst trying to make a payment and they were also unable to use their app.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/lloyds-bank-and-halifax-users-unable-to-use-app-in-latest-outage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">fintech<\/a> serves more than 80m personal customers across the world, and more than 800,000 business customers. In the UK, it is estimated to have around 13m customers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Halifax, which is owned by Lloyds, also posted on X that it was aware some customers were \u201chaving issues\u201d with the app and online.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Downdetector also flagged issues with NHS England, Gov.UK and Asda on Tuesday morning following the Google Cloud disruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A spokesperson for Revolut said: \u201cWe are currently experiencing a service disruption affecting multiple services. We can confirm that all our customers\u2019 money and data are safe. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been working to fix the issue since it was identified this morning and apologise to anyone affected and for any inconvenience caused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last year a swathe of platforms <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/zoom-slack-coinbase-all-down-heres-every-service-affected-by-amazon-outage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">faced an outage <\/a>after a global Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage. This included the likes of Lloyds, Zoom and Slack.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tRead more<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"read-more__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/revolut-hackers-hold-nearly-700-customers-private-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Revolut hackers stole nearly 700 customers\u2019 private data<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\tSimilarly tagged content: <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tSections\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tCategories\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPeople &amp; Organisations\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday 20 October 2026 8:58 am \u00a0|\u00a0\u00a0Updated:\u00a0 Tuesday 20 October 2026 11:17 am Revolut was hit with an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":808541,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168501,1340,84,11700,47526,47527,265401,2306,168504,181387,50,21740,33489,181388,86,56,47530,54,55],"class_list":["post-808540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-bank-outages","tag-banking","tag-business","tag-fintech","tag-fintech-investment","tag-fintech-unicorn","tag-global-tech-outage","tag-mobile","tag-mobile-outage","tag-monzo-outage","tag-news","tag-outage","tag-revolut","tag-revolut-business","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-uk-fintech","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/808541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}