TL;DR

Google Cloud europe-west2 is the company's London region, and a region is a group of separate data centre sites called zones which Google designs to limit correlated failures from physical infrastructure outages.

A power event in one of those sites, europe-west2-b, caused an outage on 20 October 2026, and Tech AI Wire counts 41 Google Cloud products as affected, with elevated errors and intermittent network issues also reported across the rest of the region.

The recorded incident length is 7 hours 52 minutes, running from 07:08 to 15:00 London time, and the status page described the power event as mitigated by 04:12 Pacific time.

Revolut's own status page listed card payments, transfers and sign-in as down, and users of Lloyds, HSBC and Bank of Scotland reported problems.

Google told customers they could move workloads to another zone or region, and its final status update said that a very small number of customers were still affected.

Zones exist so a single failure stays contained, and the…