FCA Eyes Google Cloud Outage

A major outage in Google Cloud’s London region put the spotlight on cloud resilience, with a “power event” at a third-party facility taking down services like GKE, Cloud Run, and App Engine for up to eight hours. Banks, fintechs like Revolut, and even the UK court system felt the disruption, forcing a hard look at how much responsibility lies with Google’s architecture versus customer deployment choices. Regulators are now circling, demanding answers and tighter resilience tests for Google as a “Critical Third Party” in UK finance—underscoring how concentration risk is becoming everyone’s problem, not just a technical one.

But here’s the catch: as questions swirl over reliability, Google Cloud is doubling down on its AI ambitions, announcing private previews of OpenAI’s latest GPT-6 models inside its model garden. Now, Google is the only cloud with all three leading closed-source AI models—its own Gemini, Anthropic’s Claude, and OpenAI’s GPT—in one place, with promises of unified governance and billing. That’s a big deal for CIOs juggling compliance and procurement, but it also raises fresh questions about platform stickiness, vendor risk, and whether customers will trust Google with their most sensitive workloads after a headline-grabbing stumble.

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