Google is DOWN: Huge outage hits hundreds websites and apps due to Google Cloud service issues

A huge outage has hit hundreds of websites and apps due to an issue with the Google Cloud service. 

Several banking apps, Royal Mail, and Rightmove are just some of the services affected by the outage, which began at around 07:00 BST this morning. 

According to Google, the London region is affected .

The tech giant said its engineering team ​is investigating ​the ⁠issue, which impacted the London-based europe-west2 data center.

In a message on its Cloud Status page, Goodle says: 'We are experiencing an issue with multiple services in europe-west2", and says that the issues began around 07:00 BST (23:08 PDT). 

'Our engineering team continues to investigate the issue.'