Resilience in Action: How Form3's Multi-Cloud Platform Handled the GCP Outage 

On Thursday 12th June Google’s Cloud outage impacted services across nearly every region for approximately two hours, disrupting operations for many global users. Kevin Holditch, VP of Engineering at Form3 discusses how Form3’s multi-cloud platform handles these outages to ensure zero disruption to real-time processing for its customers. 

As VP Engineering: Platform at Form3, I'm incredibly proud of the engineering and operational excellence behind our multi-cloud architecture. Yesterday's global Google Cloud Platform (GCP) incident, which affected services across nearly every region for approximately two hours, served as a powerful real-world validation of our approach. 

Despite the scale and impact of the incident, the Form3 platform continued to process payments without disruption. Our customers experienced seamless service, with no interruption to real-time processing, exactly as our platform was designed to deliver. 

This is the kind of scenario we’ve architected for. By leveraging a true multi-cloud strategy, we avoid over-reliance on any single provider. Our system dynamically distributes workloads and traffic across cloud environments, ensuring continuity even in the face of significant regional or provider-level incidents. 

We’ve always believed multi-cloud is the future and yesterday reinforced why. 

If you haven’t yet, take a look at our original blog on this subject: Why Multicloud Is The Future.