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As of October 20, Revolut, a UK digital bank, experienced a major outage affecting millions of users worldwide. Customers reported being unable to access their accounts, make card payments, or withdraw cash from ATMs. Revolut confirmed that the disruption was impacting multiple services but assured customers that funds and data were safe. The company attributed the issue to a "service disruption" without specifying the cause.

Simultaneously, Google Cloud faced widespread service disruptions in its europe-west2 region based in London, likely affecting multiple tech companies including Revolut. Google acknowledged the outage on their status page but did not provide immediate updates on the root cause or resolution timeline. The impact was severe enough to also affect banking services from other providers like ING Germany.

Both incidents highlight the critical dependency of modern financial services on cloud infrastructure and potential vulnerabilities arising from centralized cloud service failures.

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“Both articles describe the identical service disruption of Revolut's services due to a Google Cloud outage in London on October 20, 2026.”

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Google Cloud services face outage in London, Revolut services down too asserted

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LONDON - Multiple Google Cloud services experienced disruptions in the company’s London region on Oct 20, according to its service status page, while British digital bank Revolut also reported a service outage. uncertain

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A person familiar with the matter told Reuters that Revolut’s service outage was related to the Google Cloud service disruption. asserted

outage → tell → disruption

Revolut’s status page showed most of its services were unavailable or partially unavailable, including card payments and ATM withdrawals. asserted

most → show → payments

As at 5.40pm, Revolut’s system status page for Singapore showed that all 27 of its services were partially unavailable, and that the issue was detected at 3.47pm. asserted

issue → show → 3.47pm

“We are currently experiencing a service disruption affecting multiple services. asserted

We → experience → services

We can confirm that all our customers’ money and data are safe,” Revolut said on X. Google said its engineering team was investigating the issue, which impacted the London-based europe-west2 data centre. asserted

which → confirm → centre

Alphabet’s Google did not immediately respond to a Reuters request seeking further details. asserted

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Separately, ING Germany said there were problems logging into online banking and its banking app due to a technical issue. asserted

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Google Cloud services face outage in London, Revolut services down too

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