What the Recent Amazon and Microsoft Cloud Outages Taught the UK Payments Industry | HackerNoon

October 2025’s AWS and Azure outages showed how dependent the UK payments sector is on a small set of cloud providers. The piece unpacks the systemic risks, regulatory concerns, and lessons from blockchain—offering a roadmap for payment firms to build resilient, cloud-agnostic, multi-provider architectures that prioritise continuity over assumed perfect uptime.