Google Cloud Outage Hits Revolut, HSBC, Lloyds, and Other Major Banks

A major Google Cloud outage is reportedly disrupting banking services across Europe, with customers of Revolut, HSBC, Lloyds, and Bank of Scotland reporting problems accessing their accounts and completing transactions.

Google has confirmed widespread issues affecting numerous cloud services, although the exact connection between the outage and the banking disruptions remains unclear.

Revolut confirms major banking disruptions

Revolut has confirmed service disruptions affecting several core banking features, including account sign-ins, payments, transfers, and ATM withdrawals.

The problems reportedly affect:

• Account registration and sign-ins.
• Payments, transfers, and account top-ups.
• ATM cash withdrawals.
• Stock and cryptocurrency trading.

Customers of HSBC, Lloyds, and Bank of Scotland are also reporting difficulties accessing online banking services and processing transactions.

The full extent of the banking disruptions remains unclear, and the affected institutions have not confirmed when their services will return to normal.

Google Cloud confirms widespread service failures

Google has acknowledged problems affecting dozens of its cloud products, including Google Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Cloud SQL, Cloud Run, BigQuery, and Google Kubernetes Engine.

Other affected services include Cloud Firestore, Cloud Load Balancing, Cloud Spanner, and several networking and database products.

Google advises affected cloud customers to migrate impacted workloads to another available zone or region where possible to minimize disruptions.

The company has not confirmed the underlying cause of the outage or provided a timeline for complete service restoration.

In other Google news, Chrome is testing an option to temporarily disable Safe Browsing protection, while Google is expanding Gmail AI Inbox to more Workspace users. Meanwhile, Google AI Plus subscribers are set to lose access to Gemini Pro models starting November 13.

Via Neowin