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

This content originally appeared on HackerNoon and was authored by Noda

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.

This content originally appeared on HackerNoon and was authored by Noda