Posts tagged with "Resilience"

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Azure & Cloud
October 21, 2026

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.

Azure Availability Zones
Resilience
Google Cloud Outage
DORA
Sweden Central
Azure SQL Database
App Service
Azure Storage
Finansinspektionen
Business Continuity
By Falak Mahmood
AI & Cloud Infrastructure
September 6, 2026

ChatGPT, Claude and Grok down at once: your failover plan

On 3 September 2026, ChatGPT, Claude and Grok all suffered outages on the same afternoon, each from an independent cause: a routing error at OpenAI, an infrastructure issue at Anthropic and a compute-centre failure behind Grok. A runtime failover plan for Azure teams: Foundry's model router with automatic fallback, APIM's AI gateway and circuit breaker, what redundancy really costs, and the Data Zone and DORA constraints that shape it.

AI Failover
Resilience
Microsoft Foundry
Model Router
Azure API Management
DORA
EU Data Zone
Multi-Model
Outage
By Falak Mahmood
Security & Compliance
January 15, 2026

DORA One Year In: Swedish Fintech Engineering Lessons

One year after the Digital Operational Resilience Act entered into force for financial-sector firms on 17 January 2025, this is what Swedish fintech engineering teams actually learned about ICT risk, incident reporting, TLPT, and the third-party register.

DORA
Fintech
Compliance
Sweden
Resilience
By Falak Mahmood