Google Cloud's London zones takes a nap, multiple services disrupted
Multiple Google Cloud services in the Western Europe region experienced elevated errors and intermittent network failures beginning at 0608 UTC. Affected services included BigQuery, Cloud Run, Google App Engine, Kubernetes Engine and others. The outage exposed vulnerabilities in single-zone deployments, with users and third-party services experiencing cascading failures. Customers including Lloyds Bank, HSBC and Royal Mail were impacted.
Key points
- europe-west2-b zone outage affected BigQuery, Cloud Run, App Engine, GKE and other services
- Downtime began at 0608 UTC with no initial recovery estimate
- Cascading failures highlighted risks for non-highly-available deployments
- Multiple major customers including banks and logistics affected
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