Revolut's massive outage blamed on GCP, but ex-sales contact says it rejected multi-zone redundancy
thedealdirector · x · 2026-10-22
Revolut suffered a major service disruption on Oct 20 due to a Google Cloud outage, locking tens of thousands of customers out of their accounts. Its apology email stressed 'funds are safe' and blamed GCP — which the author calls amateur hour. Citing his own experience selling observability tools to Revolut, he notes the company refused annual contracts and showed no interest in multi-zone redundancy or alternatives to GCP, hinting the single point of failure was its own architecture choice.
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