{"id":25556,"date":"2026-10-20T15:37:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/google-cloud-failure-hits-millions-as-uk-courts-and-banks-knocked-offline\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T15:37:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T13:37:21","slug":"google-cloud-failure-hits-millions-as-uk-courts-and-banks-knocked-offline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/google-cloud-failure-hits-millions-as-uk-courts-and-banks-knocked-offline\/","title":{"rendered":"Google cloud failure hits millions as UK courts and banks knocked offline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Services restored for most users, but power fault stalled hearings and left Revolut, Lloyds and HSBC customers unable to pay or move money<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/live\/2026\/oct\/20\/uk-unemployment-rate-pre-budget-boost-wages-vacancies-latest-news-updates\">Business live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An outage at Google\u2019s cloud services in the UK has caused widespread disruption, hitting courts and leaving millions of customers unable to access or send cash at banks including Lloyds, HSBC and Revolut.<\/p>\n<p>Google blamed a \u201cpower event\u201d for the failure at its London-based Cloud computing operations on Tuesday, which affected its \u201ceurope-west2-b zone\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/oct\/20\/revolut-down-app-cards-service-disruption\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d58e3aac6f0229d8898fb9662f67f64e3d40e5f7\/213_0_2915_2333\/master\/2915.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=e6602b6b92ce9f819c1b55dc25b46f9e\" title=\"Google cloud failure hits millions as UK courts and banks knocked offline\" \/>Services restored for most users, but power fault stalled hearings and left Revolut, Lloyds and HSBC customers unable to pay or move money<br \/>\nBusiness live \u2013 latest updates<br \/>\nAn outage at Google\u2019s cloud services in the UK has caused widespread disruption, hitting courts and leaving millions of customers unable to access or send cash at banks including Lloyds, HSBC and Revolut.<br \/>\nGoogle blamed a \u201cpower event\u201d for the failure at its London-based Cloud computing operations on Tuesday, which affected its \u201ceurope-west2-b zone\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Services restored for most users, but power fault stalled hearings and left Revolut, Lloyds and HSBC customers unable to pay or move money Business live \u2013 latest updates An outage at Google\u2019s cloud services in the UK has caused widespread disruption, hitting courts and leaving millions of customers unable to access or send cash at &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/google-cloud-failure-hits-millions-as-uk-courts-and-banks-knocked-offline\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Google cloud failure hits millions as UK courts and banks knocked offline<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":25557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25556"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25556\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}