‘Too big to not fail’: Google outage exposes UK reliance on a handful of cloud providers.

A power outage at a London datacentre caused cascading failures across multiple banking services, and experts quoted say dependence on the internet services of a few large tech companies leaves users vulnerable to cloud failures and bugs.

Why it matters: It highlights how outages at a single datacentre can disrupt banking and other services because so much depends on a handful of cloud providers.

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