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Revolut Mobile Services Disrupted by Google Cloud Fault

The outage shows reliance on a single cloud region can cascade failures across banks, utilities and fintech services.

Overview

  • Revolut is undergoing a multi-hour outage that has left roughly 28–31 app functions unavailable, including logins, card payments, transfers, ATM withdrawals and currency exchange.
  • Revolut and its status page say the company is working to restore services and that customer funds and personal data remain secure while remediation continues.
  • The disruption has been linked to problems in Google Cloud's London region after Google acknowledged regional issues and other UK firms reported related outages.
  • Users in multiple countries — including Spain, the UK and France — reported service failures and some customers said they could not complete payments as far away as Japan and Australia.
  • The incident underscores a wider operational risk for fintechs that use large cloud providers, a vulnerability seen in past multihour outages at major cloud vendors that affected many companies.