Britain's cloud habit has become a billion-pound risk

UK firms face systemic cloud infrastructure risk, with over 60% dependent on cloud services for critical functions; a 24-hour outage in AWS eu-west-1 or us-east-1 could cost £1bn and £650m respectively, concentrating vulnerability in a few regions and providers.

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