Overview
- Revolut confirmed a service disruption on Tuesday morning that left many customers unable to open the app, make transfers or complete card payments.
- Google Cloud reported elevated errors and intermittent network failures in its europe-west2 (London) region and said engineers were investigating the incident.
- Downdetector and other trackers recorded thousands of user reports as problems spiked shortly after 06:00–07:00 BST, with most complaints about the app and transfers.
- Revolut and affected firms have said customer funds and personal data are safe while teams work on fixes, but no single root cause or restoration timeline has been published.
- The episode underscores the wider risk of centralised cloud dependencies, since more services may be disrupted when a major provider’s regional infrastructure fails.