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Over-reliance on a single cloud provider poses a top-five emerging risk to businesses for the second consecutive quarter, a Gartner survey found. The issue of “cloud concentration” and the potential massive disruption from the failure of a single provider is fast becoming a widely recognized problem. Other serious emerging risks include third-party viability and mass AI availability. Gartner urges companies to develop robust continuity plans to handle any major cloud service issues.