Google Cloud network failure in Europe disrupts multiple banks including Revolut, Lloyds and HSBC
AIFlow_ML · x · 2026-10-20
Google confirmed that 'multiple' Cloud services suffered network failures in Europe, triggering a broad cascade: downtime monitoring shows Revolut, Lloyds Bank, HSBC, Bank of Scotland, Royal Mail, Rightmove, DPD, Screwfix, SiteGround and Cloudflare all spiking at the same time.
The attached dashboard shows 12 affected services erroring within the same window. The incident once again highlights single-point-of-failure risk in concentrated cloud infrastructure — one provider's network-layer issue can hit European banking and logistics within minutes.
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