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  • Countries talking about AI sovereignty, when they forgot compute sovereignty
    by gentlerain
  • Possibly the most surprising part of this is the extremely quiet reporting on it. I've not seen many news outlets pick it up, & even on HN - they were down for almost 8 hours & I didn't see even see this post hit the frontpage (it might have briefly at some stage).

    I guess service reliability is just no longer something we consider a big deal in today's tech landscape.

    by lucideer
  • That's not the whole. That's the UK. I use banking services in Switzerland, built on GCP. No interruption at all. Been travelling all day.
    by samkone
  • I bank with HSBC. Everything is up and working.

    A lot of the information people are leveraging here comes from Downdetector which is mostly users reporting that stuff is down, not whether they are actually down. It's a really bad source.

    by bcvvvy
  • For me it was Revolut. No access to my main account, no withdrawals, no card payments since the morning. App doesn't work, there's no phone number to call, nobody to talk to. Dark side of neobanking, I guess.
    by paweladamczuk
  • The EU should really prioritise building AWS and Google Cloud alternatives with European values.

    > ssh root@eu-cloud

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    by otar
  • >>Google cloud outage takes down HSBC, Revolut, Bank of Scotland, Llyods, Equifax, more

    You will probably have issues logging into Llyods even when the cloud is back up.

    by gadders
  • From Google's status page https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/Xs2XTHzAVC9YnafnPy...

        We are experiencing an issue with multiple services in
    europe-west2 beginning on Monday, 2026-10-19 23:08 PDT.
    
    Due to a power event we had suffered an outage within
    europe-west2-b zone. The power event is mitigated. Partial
    mitigation to infrastructure services will be observed within the
    next 30 minutes and the remaining services will be mitigated there
    after.
    So some kind of power failure happened to bring down one zone. Unfortunate, but this kind of stuff happens. That is why all the cloud providers have multiple zones, and I'm amazed the big companies reported as down weren't using multiple zones.

    (Also reporting the times in PDT is quite unhelpful for users of this zone who are likely based in the UK or EU)

    by nickcw

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