Google Cloud London Outage Disrupts Revolut, Halifax, and Other Financial Services

A major technical disruption in Google Cloud's europe-west2 London region has disrupted multiple banking and financial applications. The outage hit services early Tuesday morning, causing widespread platform unavailability for fintech firm Revolut, UK lender Halifax, and budgeting app Emma. The downtime caused functional issues for Revolut users, including temporary failures in processing card payments and completing ATM withdrawals. Affected companies confirmed customer funds and data remain safe, while Google Cloud engineering teams actively investigate the incident to restore full system operations.