Google cloud failure hits millions as UK courts and banks knocked offline
by Kalyeena Makortoff and Julia Kollewe from Technology | The Guardian on (#7962J)
Services restored for most users, but power fault stalled hearings and left Revolut, Lloyds and HSBC customers unable to pay or move money
An outage at Google's 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.
Google blamed a power event" for the failure at its London-based Cloud computing operations on Tuesday, which affected its europe-west2-b zone".
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