Google Cloud outage hits London region as Revolut also goes down

Dozens of Google Cloud services failed in the company’s London data centre region on Tuesday morning, and hit firms that run their systems there. The same morning, customers of fintech Revolut could not use its app or pay by card.

A person familiar with the matter told Reuters that Revolut’s outage was related to the Google Cloud disruption.

Revolut, which is based in London, runs its app and back-end systems on Google Cloud. The two companies expanded that partnership in…