A major outage at Google Cloud disrupted banking services across the UK early on Tuesday, including popular fintech platform Revolut Ltd. The issue affected Alphabet Inc.’s Google Cloud services in the London region, as acknowledged in an update to its status page. However, the company did not provide further details about the cause of the disruption.
Google suggested that affected customers could attempt to migrate their services to other cloud regions if possible. A spokesperson for Google declined to offer additional comments on the situation.
The outage highlights the reliance of financial institutions on cloud services and the potential risks associated with such dependencies. While the exact impact on users remains unclear, the disruption underscores the importance of redundancy and contingency planning in critical infrastructure.