{"id":25558,"date":"2026-10-20T18:37:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/too-big-to-not-fail-google-outage-exposes-uk-reliance-on-a-handful-of-cloud-providers\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T18:37:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T16:37:24","slug":"too-big-to-not-fail-google-outage-exposes-uk-reliance-on-a-handful-of-cloud-providers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/20\/too-big-to-not-fail-google-outage-exposes-uk-reliance-on-a-handful-of-cloud-providers\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Too big to not fail\u2019: Google outage exposes UK reliance on a handful of cloud providers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our dependence on internet services of a few key tech companies leaves us vulnerable to cloud failures, bugs and more, experts say<\/p>\n

It happened again. A power outage hit a datacentre in London<\/a>, and things cascaded from there: multiple banking services faltered, court hearings were put on hold and patients reported temporary glitches on the NHS app.<\/p>\n

The datacentre in question was in Google\u2019s europe-west2-b zone, one of more than a dozen \u201czones\u201d that the US search giant maintains in Europe to service its clients.<\/p>\n

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\nOur dependence on internet services of a few key tech companies leaves us vulnerable to cloud failures, bugs and more, experts say
\nIt happened again. A power outage hit a datacentre in London, and things cascaded from there: multiple banking services faltered, court hearings were put on hold and patients reported temporary glitches on the NHS app.
\nThe datacentre in question was in Google\u2019s europe-west2-b zone, one of more than a dozen \u201czones\u201d that the US search giant maintains in Europe to service its clients. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our dependence on internet services of a few key tech companies leaves us vulnerable to cloud failures, bugs and more, experts say It happened again. A power outage hit a datacentre in London, and things cascaded from there: multiple banking services faltered, court hearings were put on hold and patients reported temporary glitches on the …<\/p>\n

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