Google Cloud says a 'power event' caused today's outage
A power incident in the europe-west-2-b availability zone in London disrupted customer services beginning at 0608 UTC. Affected services included BigQuery Data Transfer, Cloud Filestore, Cloud Run, App Engine, Kubernetes Engine and Managed Service for Kafka. Customers included major banks and enterprises like Lloyds, HSBC, Royal Mail and Revolut. Google targeted service recovery by 1300 UTC.
Key points
- Power event disabled London availability zone
- Multiple critical services affected across customer base
- Major financial and logistics firms impacted
- Recovery targeted within 7 hours of detection
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