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  nickcw
  From Google's status page https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/Xs2XTHzAVC9YnafnPy... We are experiencing an issue with multiple services in europe-west2 beginning on Monday, 2026-10-19 23:08 PDT. Due to a power event we had suffered an outage within europe-west2-b zone. The power event is mitigated. Partial mitigation to infrastructure services will be observed within the next 30 minutes and the remaining services will be mitigated there after. So some kind of power failure happened to bring down one zone. Unfortunate, but this kind of stuff happens. That is why all the cloud providers have multiple zones, and I'm amazed the big companies reported as down weren't using multiple zones.(Also reporting the times in PDT is quite unhelpful for users of this zone who are likely based in the UK or EU)
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  gadders
  >>Google cloud outage takes down HSBC, Revolut, Bank of Scotland, Llyods, Equifax, moreYou will probably have issues logging into Llyods even when the cloud is back up.
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  bcvvvy
  I bank with HSBC. Everything is up and working.A lot of the information people are leveraging here comes from Downdetector which is mostly users reporting that stuff is down, not whether they are actually down. It's a really bad source.
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  paweladamczuk
  For me it was Revolut. No access to my main account, no withdrawals, no card payments since the morning. App doesn't work, there's no phone number to call, nobody to talk to. Dark side of neobanking, I guess.
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  gentlerain
  Countries talking about AI sovereignty, when they forgot compute sovereignty
• stymaar
  Nobody has never been fired for using ~~IBM~~ ~~Oracle~~ Google.
• Muromec
  You can't hurt our mainframe running COBOL. Suck it zoomers!
• bpavuk
  I wonder if it's somehow related to me having to re-sign into my account after clearing Google Play Services data just a few hours ago.
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  BlackRabbit1
  Most likely it knocked out the "Ing" bank in Germany.
• misstuned
  I couldn't unlock a shared city bike this morning on the Beryl system, probably the same outage.
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  diamondDrill
  how can cloud inf go down? that was the main selling point, it makes no sense
• mistic92
  Ah again London region :D
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  gaiagraphia
  It's a little worrying that banking with an institution from one of the world's financial capitals is so vulnerable. I would've thought London would've been priding itself on security, stability, safety, etc. Confidence in their systems is their bread and butterAfaik, even Russia and Ukraine aren't having such issues while dealing with data centres getting droned, lol.It's really quite poor performance.
• rvz
  Since there are no humans working on outages here is the test for superintelligence:Can someone ask Claude, Codex, Copilot, Antigravity, Devin to resolve this outage?No Googling or help from humans this time.
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  josefritzishere
  Let me draw a line between this and the Ukrainian bombing of Russian Yandex data centers. This is a sign of structural vulnerability. If one power failure can take down more than 5 banks, what you are describing is a valuable target. It's ironic that the cloud services that promised to harden systems have delivered another layer of vulnerability.
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  nfrankel
  Migrate to the Cloud, they said. It will be more resilient and less expensive, they said.
• bookofjoe
  Ironic: yesterday X Money invited me to open an account — with a starting gift balance of $15. Deeper currents?
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  dangoodmanUT
  At this point, the way I see it is:- There's AWS- There's Azure- There's everything elseAnd I don't even use Azure, I just hear it's good (and they don't charge cross-AZ traffic)