Google Cloud outage disrupts London services after power failure

Google Cloud services suffered network disruption on Tuesday, Oct. 20, after a power event at a London data center, the company said on its service-status page.

The outage affected cloud services tied to the London facility, adding an operational test for customers that rely on the platform for hosted applications, storage and network functions.

London data center failure

The company said the disruption followed a power outage and that it was working to restore services. It said partial recovery was expected shortly, without giving a full-resolution time.

Cloud outages can affect companies unevenly. Customers with workloads concentrated in one region may see application failures or slower service, while those with backup capacity in other regions may be able to reroute traffic.

For Google, the immediate issue is service restoration and customer communication. For the wider cloud sector, the event points to the operational risk attached to regional data centers, even for providers that market redundancy as a core feature.

The dated forward call is Oct. 20: customers will be watching whether Google begins partial restoration within the short window it gave and whether the company later details the scope of affected services.