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<p>This is a major outage shaking the financial sector and the crypto ecosystem in Europe. Since Tuesday morning, a critical failure affecting the Google Cloud infrastructure in London has paralyzed a large part of the neobank Revolut’s services. Declined cards, impossible ATM withdrawals, and temporarily unavailable crypto wallets, the fintech is trying to reassure its 45 million users.</p>
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  <h2 class="in-brief--title" id="in-brief">In brief</h2>
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   <li>Massive network outage on Google Cloud servers (europe-west2 region in London).</li>
   <li>The services affected by the Google Cloud outage include card payments, cash withdrawals, bank transfers, and logging into the application.</li>
   <li>The Revolut X platform and crypto trading are suspended; users are reporting balances showing “€0”.</li>
   <li>Revolut states that the incident is purely technical and that both customer funds and data remain secure.</li>
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<h2 id="h-when-google-cloud-fails-revolut-stops">When Google Cloud Fails, Revolut Stops</h2>
<p>The incident began early Tuesday morning, October 20, 2026, following a chain of technical issues in the Google Cloud Europe-West zone. Revolut, which relies almost exclusively on the <a href="https://www.cointribune.com/en/googles-new-quantum-milestone-puts-bitcoin-in-focus/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">American giant</a> servers to run its scalable infrastructure, found itself deprived of its central systems.</p>
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<p>On social networks and the <em>Downdetector</em> platform, testimonies count in the thousands: refused transactions at checkout, inability to make withdrawals, and inability to access accounts. Other institutions and apps like Lloyds bank or the Emma management app also experience slowdowns due to this server incident.</p>
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    <td>Revolut Service</td>
    <td>Current Incident Status</td>
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    <td>Card Payments &amp; ATM</td>
    <td><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/274c.png" alt="❌" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;"> Unavailable / Disrupted</td>
    <td>Transactions declined in-store and at ATMs</td>
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    <td>Crypto Trading &amp; Revolut X</td>
    <td><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/274c.png" alt="❌" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;"> Suspended</td>
    <td>Unable to buy, sell, or transfer tokens</td>
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    <td>Wallet Display</td>
    <td><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/26a0.png" alt="⚠" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;"> Display Error</td>
    <td>Balances may show “0” or fail to load</td>
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    <td>Fund Security</td>
    <td><img src="https://s.w.org/images/core/emoji/14.0.0/72x72/2705.png" alt="✅" style="height: 1em; max-height: 1em;"> Guaranteed by Revolut</td>
    <td>No loss of capital or data leaks</td>
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<h2 id="h-revolut-trading-blocked-and-zero-balances-fear-among-crypto-investors">Revolut: Trading Blocked and Zero Balances, Fear Among Crypto Investors</h2>
<p>Beyond daily payments, it is the fintech’s investment side that is heavily impacted by <a href="https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/Xs2XTHzAVC9YnafnPyzj" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">this Google Cloud outage</a>. Users of the dedicated <em>Revolut X</em> platform and clients buying cryptos directly from the main app find themselves unable to execute trading orders.</p>
<p>Some traders expressed fear upon discovering a crypto wallet temporarily drained or unsynchronizable. Revolut quickly <a href="https://x.com/revolut/status/2112452445028614323?s=46" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">clarified the situation on X</a> to prevent panic:</p>
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 <p><em>We are currently experiencing a service interruption affecting several functionalities. We confirm that all our customers’ money and data are fully secure. Our teams are working to resolve the issue as quickly as possible.</em></p>
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<h2 id="h-cloud-centralization-a-systemic-risk-for-fintech">Cloud Centralization: A Systemic Risk for Fintech?</h2>
<p>This event brings back to the forefront the crucial debate on the dependency of giants like Revolut and Web3 brokers on centralized cloud servers like Google Cloud or AWS (Amazon). When a single regional data center suffers a network outage, tens of billions of dollars in financial flows and crypto liquidity <a href="https://www.revolut.com/system-status/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">suddenly freeze</a>.</p>
<p>This incident underscores the importance for crypto investors to keep their <a href="https://www.cointribune.com/en/search/Btc/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">bitcoin</a> or other private keys and to use self-custody solutions to avoid being trapped during traditional infrastructure outages.</p>
<p>While Google Cloud and Revolut engineers are working hard to restore connections after this <a href="https://www.cointribune.com/en/solana-fidelity-praises-its-resilience-but-flags-three-key-risks/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">outage</a>, this widespread banking shutdown mainly demonstrates the vulnerability of fully digital banks to cloud outages. Were you impacted by the Revolut outage during your transactions or crypto trading sessions today?</p>

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