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

Google Cloud is currently suffering what appears to be a major outage across most of Europe.

The company has confirmed "Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region" with user reports spiking on outage tracker site DownDetector.

We're tracking the issue here, so stay tuned for the latest updates.

2026-10-20T09:45:50.826Z

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.

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