Google Cloud Outage Knocks Revolut, UK Banks Offline — SkimNews
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- Google Cloud suffered an outage in the UK that took down digital banks including Revolut and other financial services, according to Bloomberg
- The outage also disrupted UK public sector websites and was easing after hitting European services, per Reuters and the New York Times
Why it matters: The simultaneous failure of consumer banking apps (Revolut) and government websites from a single cloud outage shows how concentrated UK digital infrastructure has become on hyperscale providers, meaning a Google Cloud incident now means both your bank app and your council site go dark at once.
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