Google Cloud down - major outage across Europe hits big brands, banking apps and more

Google Cloud is currently suffering what appears to be a major outage across most of Europe.

The company has confirmed "Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region" with user reports spiking on outage tracker site DownDetector.

We're tracking the issue here, so stay tuned for the latest updates.

Good morning - well, maybe not so good for Google Cloud, which has confirmed it is suffering issues across Europe.

On its status page, the company confirmed it was seeing that "Multiple services are experiencing issues in the europe-west2 region."

The problems were confirmed at 10.24am BST/02.24am PST, so it could be a busy day for Google workers...