‘Too big to not fail’: Google outage exposes UK reliance on a handful of cloud providers
A power outage at Google's europe-west2-b zone in London triggered widespread disruptions across multiple critical services. Banking systems faltered, court hearings were postponed, and NHS app users experienced temporary glitches. The incident underscores the UK's concentrated dependence on a handful of major tech companies for essential infrastructure, leaving the country exposed to outages, bugs, and other system failures.
Key points
- Google London datacentre outage cascaded across banking, courts, and NHS
- UK relies heavily on infrastructure from a few dominant cloud providers
- Concentrated dependency creates systemic vulnerability to single-point failures
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