Google Cloud power event knocks out UK banks, courts and couriers

T2Covered by 1 source · first reported by Europe/UK: Tech.eu / Sifted / TNW / Silicon Republic / UKTN / Computer Weekly / heise / Golem / t3n / Maddyness / FrenchWeb at 20 Oct, 12:50 UTC

Google runs a single UK cloud region, so when one London zone lost power, there was nowhere to failover – most services recovered by late afternoon, but courts are still down