Google Cloud down - major outage across Europe hits big brands, banking apps and more

Here's that spike - bad news for Google Cloud customers, but hopefully we should be getting an update soon.

Looking at DownDetector, it seems some of the initial surges at other companies seems to be dying down, with Revolut, Lloyds, Rightmove and DpD all recovering.

After a slight fall in DownDetector reports, things have surged up slightly again.

On its status page, Google Cloud has promised an update soon, noting:

"We are experiencing an issue with multiple services in europe-west2 beginning on Monday, 2026-10-19 23:08 PDT.

Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.

We will provide an update by Tuesday, 2026-10-20 04:00 PDT with current details.

We apologize to all who are affected by the disruption."

Google Cloud's own status page doesn't make for pretty viewing either, with lots of orange alerts showing that multiple systems are down, and many regions across Europe affected.

The affected services include hugely important business tools such as BigQuery, App Engine, Looker, SQL and many many more...

As the technological backbone for many other companies, the Google Cloud issue may well be affecting a range of customers.

DownDetector is showing a few spikes for other companies that seem to mirror its own pattern - with several major banking apps including the likes of Revolut and Lloyds Bank in the UK apparently affected.

You can follow TechRadar's coverage of that outage in our seperate live blog here.

DownDetector is showing a big spike in user reports that something is not well at Google Cloud, although numbers do appear to have fallen slightly.

Good morning - well, maybe not so good for Google Cloud, which has confirmed it is suffering issues across Europe.

On its status page, the company confirmed it was seeing that "Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region."

The problems were confirmed at 10.24am BST/02.24am PST, so it could be a busy day for Google workers...