Following the multiple outages related to Google Cloud recorded on the morning of Tuesday 20 October 2026, the Mountain View company announced shortly after 1pm (Italian time) that it had resolved the problem and that services will be gradually restored.
Starting from 08:08 Italian time on Tuesday October 20, 2026 were found in Italy and Europe several problems with the services of Google Cloud (GCP). According to a statement from Google, the problem at the source is been resolved around lunchtime and business services will be gradually restored, after a partial restart of infrastructural ones.
Google Cloud (GCP) is a series of IT services in cloud computing made available by the company Mountain View. Essentially, thanks to this suite, companies can access internet services of various kinds without directly owning and managing them proprietary servers. Among them are data storagedata analysis, artificial intelligence based on machine learning (machine learning), tools management and more. Google Cloud’s physical infrastructure is spread across various parts of the world and is divided into regions and geographical areas, connected by a network in optical fiber high speed. Since this morning the problems have been found in the Europe-West region2which affected numerous companies. Here is the list indicated by Google. Among the companies involved also the Revolut online bankwhose users have started reporting login errors, card payment difficulties, and the like.
In a message published at 1.12pm today, Google announced that the outages in the European region were caused by a power problemmore specifically “a power outage in the area europe-west2-b“, the London area. The problem, states the US giant, has been resolved, therefore until 1.45pm approximately a partial restoration of infrastructural services was carried out. “The remaining services they will be gradually restored,” Google says in its announcement.
It is not clear when Google Cloud will return to normal operation for all companies, but problems with access, payment and other functions should completely disappear within the day. Google explains that due to this situation some services in the Europe-West2 region may present “a high number of errors And network problems intermittent”; affected customers were advised to try migrating their workload to another available zone or region as a temporary, workaround.
