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Neowin news article reporting a Google Cloud outage disrupting HSBC, Revolut, Bank of Scotland, Lloyds, Equifax and other European services.

What HN thinks

A single London zone loses power and half the thread discovers their bank's disaster recovery plan was 'hope'.

Customers failed to design redundancy
Zone outages are expected; banks and companies that went down chose not to run or test multi-zone or multi-region setups, often because redundancy costs money.
Cloud providers share the blame
GCP zones can share buildings and a zonal failure caused regional thundering-herd effects, and AWS us-east-1 has caused wider ripples, so provider isolation is weaker than advertised.
Cloud and neobank dependence is risky
Commenters questioned banks relying on third-party clouds, criticised Revolut's total outage, and raised sovereignty and personal redundancy like multiple cards or cash.

Consensus: Most agree that real resilience requires multi-zone or multi-region design that is actually tested, and that few organisations pay for or exercise it. Many also found Google reporting times in PDT unhelpful.

Recommended in the comments

Monzo ↗ (service): Its stand-in system on a separate codebase and cloud provider kept core banking working during an outage.
Downdetector (service): Several said it is more honest than official status pages, though noisy.
BLIK (service): Worked as a fallback payment method when a Revolut card was declined.
First Direct (service): Recommended for having human phone support.
Chase UK (service): Users were happy with the service and its parent's self-hosted, multi-cloud infrastructure.

Summarised by Claude from the comment thread 3 days ago.

Points: 373
Comments: 207
Posted: 2026-10-20 by paweladamczuk
Category: Devops infra

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