Breaking: Google Cloud is experiencing active service disruptions in its London region, with digital bank Revolut among those reporting outages this afternoon. Other services appear to be affected across the board.
This is a developing situation. If your organisation has workloads running on Google Cloud Platform, the immediate priority is checking your monitoring and understanding which services depend on that region - before your users start reporting problems to you.
Cloud resilience planning exists precisely for moments like this. Multi-region failover, clear runbooks, and dependency mapping are what separate a brief disruption from a prolonged incident. If any of those aren't in place, that's worth addressing once the dust settles.
We'll share further detail as the picture becomes clearer.