{"id":691,"date":"2026-10-20T20:05:44","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T20:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=691"},"modified":"2026-10-20T20:05:44","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T20:05:44","slug":"google-cloud-london-power-event-outage-uk-banks-courts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=691","title":{"rendered":"ONE POWER BLIP KNOCKED UK BANKS OFFLINE! | Revolut, Lloyds and HSBC customers got stuck when one Google Cloud zone in London lost power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody check the plug! <strong>Google Cloud<\/strong> says it has fixed an outage at its London cloud region that hit UK banks, businesses and even the courts on Tuesday, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cxdd8mm6qy4mo\">BBC<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Google said the trouble came from a <strong>\u201cpower event\u201d<\/strong> at a third-party facility in its <strong>europe-west2<\/strong> region, inside one of its smaller data center zones, europe-west2-b. Earlier in the day, its status page described \u201celevated errors and intermittent network failures.\u201d Google apologized and says it will publish an analysis of what went wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The fallout was real. <strong>Revolut, Lloyds Bank and HSBC<\/strong> confirmed disruption after thousands of user complaints, and more than <strong>1,500<\/strong> reports about Revolut alone hit an outage tracker shortly after 8am UK time. Customers also flagged problems with Royal Mail, DPD and e-bike service Forest. HM Courts and Tribunals Service said the video platform used for remote hearings was affected.<\/p>\n<p>One Revolut customer in Glasgow told the BBC she couldn\u2019t pay for parking at a shopping center. A small veg-box business in Preston said it couldn\u2019t download orders or book parcels, and lost sales while customers couldn\u2019t reach its website. Revolut says services are fully restored and money and data \u201cremained safe throughout.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The timing is almost comical: the BBC notes it came exactly ONE YEAR after an AWS outage knocked more than 1,000 sites offline, UK banks included. \u201cGoogle Cloud\u2019s outage is a reminder of how deeply our economies depend on just a handful of cloud providers,\u201d said Prof Feng Li of Bayes Business School. One power hiccup, and a chunk of the country can\u2019t pay for parking. Resilient!<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image: editorial illustration by Bugle Blast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cxdd8mm6qy4mo\">BBC News<\/a>; also reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2026\/oct\/20\/power-outage-google-datacentre-london-widespread-disruption\">the Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revolut, Lloyds and HSBC customers got stuck when one Google Cloud zone in London lost power<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bb-google-cloud-outage-uk-1020.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}