Google Cloud outage affects almost all banking and other operations in Europe
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A Google Cloud outage in europe-west2 disrupted major European banks and financial services on Monday.
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What commenters are saying
Commenters reported outages at Revolut, HSBC, Lloyds, and others, with Revolut users unable to access accounts or make payments. Some noted Monzo and Starling have multi-cloud disaster recovery systems that mitigated similar issues. Two camps emerged: those blaming single-region dependency on Google Cloud, and those arguing sovereignty requirements forced that architecture. A Google status update cited a power event in the europe-west2-b zone. Several commenters criticized Downdetector as an unreliable source, while others defended its usefulness.