By Graeme Stewart

The Microsoft outage has once again underlined how reliant the modern world has become on a small number of cloud providers.

When a company of Microsoft’s scale experiences a fault, it is not just a technical inconvenience. It is a global event. Airports, banks, retailers and public institutions have all felt the impact.

Microsoft has attributed the issue to an inadvertent configuration change within its Azure infrastructure, which also affected Microsoft 365 and related services. The outage left Heathrow Airport, NatWest, Vodafone and others facing significant disruption before systems gradually began to recover later in the evening.

While it appears this was not a cyberattack, the event still exposes the structural weakness of our digital ecosystem. So much of the world’s business, government and social infrastructure now sits in the hands of........

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