16:52 - 20.10.2026

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October 20, Fineko/abc.az. Google Cloud is experiencing significant network disruptions and elevated error rates affecting multiple services across its "europe-west2" region, based in London, UK.

The outage, caused by a power event, has impacted key infrastructure services including BigQuery Data Transfer, Cloud Storage, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Cloud Run. The disruption has severely hit the fintech and banking sectors, with users reporting widespread connection failures on major financial platforms such as Revolut and Halifax.

Google Cloud confirmed that mitigation efforts are underway to fully restore affected workloads in the region.