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Google Cloud had a big problem that affected banks and public services in the UK.

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The outage affected major UK banks and public institutions, and European regulators have opened inquiries. No outage length or financial loss is reported, but the broad reach and added scrutiny are bad news for Alphabet.

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The outage could weaken customers’ trust in Google Cloud and raise the chance of added oversight. The affected banks and public institutions make the incident more serious than a disruption limited to one customer. The report gives no outage length or financial loss, but the broad reach and regulator inquiries make this bad news for Alphabet.

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