Google Cloud is experiencing outages in London that appear to have knocked out a number of banking services.
An update on Google Cloud’s status dashboard states that it’s seeing service issues at its europe-west2 region, which covers the London area.
A handful of banking apps and services, including Halifax and Revolut, reported issues on Tuesday that coincided with Google Cloud’s disruptions. Some companies said that the Google Cloud outage was the cause, while others attributed it to an unnamed third-party provider.
“We are currently experiencing a service disruption affecting multiple services. We can confirm that all our customers’ money and data are safe. We’ve been working to fix the issue since it was identified this morning and apologize to anyone affected and for any inconvenience caused,” Revolut said in a statement.
“We’re aware some customers are having issues with our app and online. We’re sorry about this and are working hard to fix it,” Halifax posted on X.
Emma, a popular UK budgeting app, also reported outages on Tuesday. “Emma is currently down due to a Google Cloud outage affecting services in London since 7am. This is a technical outage, not a security issue,” the company said on X.
The outage was caused by Google Cloud, a person at another affected finance company said.
A Google spokesperson said the company was investigating the issue and referred Business Insider to the status dashboard.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
