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Google Cloud services recovering after outage hits banks and courts
Google Cloud services mostly recovered after an outage hit banks, courts and the NHS app.
Google Cloud says its services have mostly recovered after an outage disrupted banks, businesses, courts and the NHS app. Google said the incident was caused by a "power event" impacting London-based data centres, first indicated on its "europe-west2" service health dashboard around 07:00 BST. Companies including Revolut, Halifax, Lloyds and DPD reported problems, and Google said at 15:00 BST the issue had been mitigated for most customers but still affected a very small number.
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Google Cloud services recovering after outage hits banks and courts
Google Cloud said its services were mostly recovering by late Monday after a "power event" at a London-based data centre caused widespread disruption. Revolut, HSBC and DPD were among the businesses reporting issues, while the NHS app and some court services were also affected. Google said multiple cloud services had been impacted by the incident, which began earlier in the day. The company did not give a precise figure for how many customers were affected, but said recovery was underway by 16:56 BST.
Google Cloud services recovering after outage hits banks, businesses and courts
Google Cloud said on Monday that services were recovering after an outage affected banks, businesses and courts across the UK. Revolut, HSBC, Lloyds Bank, DPD and Rightmove were among the organisations reporting disruptions, according to Down Detector. Some patients were temporarily unable to book appointments through the NHS app because a third-party service integrated into it was affected. Google said "multiple" cloud services had been impacted and that recovery was underway, with full restoration expected later in the day.
Google Cloud's London zones takes a nap, multiple services disrupted
Lloyds, HSBC, Royal Mail, Revolut all hit as europe-west2-b falls over. No recovery time in sight, 'no workarounds for now' paas and iaas Lloyds, HSBC, Royal Mail, Revolut all hit as europe-west2-b falls over. No recovery time in sight, 'no workarounds for now' UPDATED Google Cloud customers in Western Europe are waking up to severe disruption affecting multiple services and, as yet, there is no estimated time of recovery. The europe-west-2-b is one of three local availability zones in the London region, intended to help protect against hardware or regional failures. The downtime began at 0608 UTC, meaning customers need more than a coffee to feel OK about today. According to Google Cloud’s status page : “Multiple Google Cloud services are experiencing elevated errors and intermittent network failures in europe-west2 region.” REG AD BigQuery Data TransferService, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Run, Google App Engine, Google Cloud NetApp Volumes, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Managed Service for Apache Kafka are all impacted, the tech biz confirmed. REG AD “Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue,” Google added. “We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption.” Techies on Reddit said the interruption was having a cascading affect on multiple suppliers. One said: “ oh man the classic one zone takes a nap and your non-HA service is in it.” “Loads of stuff seems to .