"The Guardian has reported that British police keep vital data on Microsoft’s Azure cloud, despite being apparently aware that this exposes sensitive information to US government insiders, hostile foreign actors and outages like today’s. Up to 60% of the UK government’s infrastructure is hosted on cloud services – mostly Amazon, Microsoft and Google."

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/oct/20/power-outage-google-datacentre-london-widespread-disruption