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The outage began shortly after 6am on Tuesday at Google's London cloud site, its only UK region, and hit banks including Revolut and Halifax. Google says it is now restoring existing workloads, though customers may not yet be able to create new ones. Courts in England and Wales also lost their remote hearing video system.
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