One Google zone took down UK banks: your Azure zone audit
A power event in one Google Cloud zone, europe-west2-b in London, left Revolut, HSBC, Lloyds and the UK courts' video platform degraded for most of 20 October 2026, and regulators were asking questions within hours. Azure has the same three-zone model in Sweden Central and the same failure mode when resources are left nonzonal, so here is the service-by-service audit, the Sweden Central price of fixing it, and what DORA Articles 11 and 12 already demand.
AWS lost Bahrain for good: your Azure region-loss plan
AWS confirmed on 15 September 2026 that data hosted only in its Bahrain region, and in one UAE Availability Zone, is permanently lost after Iranian strikes damaged multiple zones, proving that multi-AZ design protects availability but not against losing a whole region. For Azure teams in Sweden and the EU, the fix is a classified inventory, GZRS and geo-redundant backups for critical data, and early access to restricted pair regions such as Sweden South.