Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here's what we know so far
deep dive It's almost like AWS is building its own Stargate
On-Prem04 Jul 2025 | 26
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Amazon CISO: Iranian hacking crews ‘on high alert’ since Israel attack
Interview Meanwhile, next-gen script kiddies are levelling up faster thanks to agentic AI
CSO18 Jun 2025 | 10
AWS locks down cloud security, hits 100% MFA enforcement for root users
Plus adds a ton more security capabilities for cloud customers at re:Inforce
Security17 Jun 2025 | 1
Tinfoil hat wearers can thank AI for declassification of JFK docs
Plus: AWS launches second Secret-level cloud region
AI + ML10 Jun 2025 | 28
'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers
Barriers stack up: Datacenter capacity, egress fees, platform skills, variety of cloud services. It won't happen, say analysts
European Supercomputing22 May 2025 | 95
AWS says Britain needs more nuclear power to feed AI datacenter surge
CEO warns energy demands will overwhelm grid without extra generation capacity
European Supercomputing16 May 2025 | 66
BROADER TOPICS
NARROWER TOPICS
Jilted AWS reckons VMware is now crusty like a mainframe
Gives both platforms the ‘generative AI will freshen it up and shift it to the cloud’ treatment
Virtualization16 May 2025 | 11
37signals is completing its on-prem move, deleting its AWS account to save millions
Industry ‘pulled a fast one convincing everyone cloud is the only way’ says CTO David Heinemeier Hansson
The State of Storage09 May 2025 | 157
Human error and power glitches to blame for most outages
Blackouts less frequent in 2024, still a PITA when the datacenter downtime demons visit
Datacenter Networking Nexus07 May 2025 | 8
AWS creates EC2 instance types tailored for demanding on-prem workloads
What? Why? It’s an update to its Outposts racks hybrid cloud rigs aimed at bankers and telcos
On-Prem30 Apr 2025 | 2
European biz calls for Euro tech for local people
'Europe Stand Tall' campaign kicks off amid fear, uncertainty and doubt about Trump administration
PaaS + IaaS23 Apr 2025 | 69
Relax, AWS reassessing colo lease talks is just 'routine capacity management'
Hyperscaler says there's no decrease in demand, it's just looking for good deals
Systems22 Apr 2025 | 4
Google, AWS say it's too hard for customers to use Linux to swerve Azure
Re-writing applications takes years, is expensive, in-house expertise needed
PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2025 | 64
AWS claims 50% of Azure workloads would jump ship if licensing costs allowed
Bezos' biz and Google tell regulator higher cost of running Windows Server in their clouds isn't fair
Software16 Apr 2025 | 37
Delta Lake and Iceberg communities collide – in a good way
Table format loved by Apple and Netflix gets boost after Databricks merger
Databases15 Apr 2025 |
Bezos cost Amazon more than Jassy did in 2024 compensation stakes
Exec pay outlined in Proxy Statement, and things did not go well for either workforce or calls for climate transparency reports
PaaS + IaaS11 Apr 2025 | 8
Microsoft’s AI masterplan: Let OpenAI burn cash, then build on their successes
Analysis Redmond’s not alone: AWS, Alibaba, DeepSeek also rely on others blazing the trail
AI + ML07 Apr 2025 | 9
AWS sued by product manager who says she was laid off for being an older woman
'Flawless' team boss claims she was axed after raising alarm over shrinking female leadership ranks
Off-Prem21 Mar 2025 | 42
'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII in open S3 bucket for months
Exclusive Non-password-protected, unencrypted 108GB database … what could possibly go wrong
Security11 Mar 2025 | 14
Watchdog fails to stop big vendor lock-in, say UK cloud market's smaller players
Global giants shouldn't be allowed to make 'committed spend' public sector deals and make discounts we cannot match
PaaS + IaaS06 Mar 2025 | 9
UK government's cloud strategy: Pay more, get less, blame vendor lock-in?
Home Office's £450M deal with AWS raises questions over competition and aligning department requirements
PaaS + IaaS28 Feb 2025 | 19
AWS unboxes quantum cat qubit kit called Ocelot
Sprinting after Microsoft and co, Amazon claims it too has a QC chip that's good at all-important error correction
Science27 Feb 2025 | 13
ST Micro skips in, arm in arm with AWS, bearing a chip for 1.6 Tbps pluggable optics
It's Friday. Quit the doomscrolling. Distract yourself with IT infra news
Networks21 Feb 2025 | 6
Check out this free automated tool that hunts for exposed AWS secrets in public repos
You can find out if your GitHub codebase is leaking keys ... but so can miscreants
Security19 Feb 2025 | 2
AWS vacates its board seat at European cloud crew CISPE
... weeks after US titan was outvoted by other members to let Microsoft join the Euro cloud trade association
PaaS + IaaS14 Feb 2025 | 1
Datacenter energy use to more than double by 2030 thanks to AI's insatiable thirst
Shocking research warns electricity shortages could create construction bottleneck
On-Prem07 Feb 2025 | 21
Hardware quality problems and server supply chain kinks slow Amazon’s $100 billion AI build
Reverses life extensions for some servers it now feels aren’t useful in the inferencing age
AI + ML07 Feb 2025 | 4
Abandoned AWS S3 buckets can be reused in supply-chain attacks that would make SolarWinds look 'insignificant'
When cloud customers don't clean up after themselves, part 97
CSO04 Feb 2025 | 33
Medical monitoring machines spotted stealing patient data, users warned to pull the plug ASAP
Infosec in brief PLUS: MGM settles breach suits; AWS doesn't trust you with security defaults; A new .NET backdoor; and more
Security03 Feb 2025 | 9
Cloud market working well ... if you're AWS and Microsoft
Brit monopoly plod files report on health of local sector, says technical barriers and Redmond's licensing practices hurting smaller rivals + customers
PaaS + IaaS28 Jan 2025 | 2
AWS declares it's Iceberg all the way until customers say otherwise
Cloud giant explains its thinking behind support for Apache open table format
Databases20 Jan 2025 |
AWS adds 32-vCPU option and an easier on-ramp to its cloudy desktops
Weirdly, this shows the weakness of hosted Windows with an admission about vidchats
Virtualization17 Jan 2025 | 7
Ransomware crew abuses AWS native encryption, sets data-destruct timer for 7 days
'Codefinger' crims on the hunt for compromised keys
Research13 Jan 2025 | 5
Looming energy crunch makes future uncertain for datacenters
But investors still betting big on bit barns thanks to AI and cloud demand
On-Prem06 Jan 2025 | 12
Workday on lessons learned from Iowa and Maine project woes
Interview Nine in ten of our implementations are a success, CEO Carl Eschenbach tells The Reg
SaaS02 Jan 2025 | 11
AWS follows Iceberg path to unite analytics platform
Analysis But other obstacles remain before developers get free choice of storage and analytics engines
Databases02 Jan 2025 |
Even Netflix struggles to identify and understand the cost of its AWS estate
If you have trouble keeping track of your various streaming subscriptions, you're gonna love the irony
Off-Prem18 Dec 2024 | 70
AWS now renting monster HPE servers, even in clusters of 7,680-vCPUs and 128TB
Heir to Superdome goes cloudy for those who run large in-memory databases and apps that need them
Off-Prem17 Dec 2024 | 20
Crooks stole AWS credentials from misconfigured sites then kept them in open S3 bucket
Exclusive ShinyHunters-linked heist thought to have been ongoing since March
Research09 Dec 2024 | 9
AI and analytics converge in new generation Amazon SageMaker
re:Invent Calling everything SageMaker is confusing – but a new name would have been worse says AWS
AI + ML06 Dec 2024 | 1
AWS says AI could disrupt everything – and hopes it will do just that to Windows
re:Invent Cloud colossus reckons it can clarify hallucinations, get your apps off Microsoft's OS at pleasing speed
AI + ML04 Dec 2024 | 36
Amazon promises 4x faster AI silicon in 2025, turns Trainium2 loose on the net
Re:Invent Tens of thousands of AWS’ Trn2 instances to fuel Anthropic's next-gen models
Systems03 Dec 2024 | 5
AWS unveils cloud security IR service for a mere $7K a month
Re:Invent Tap into the infinite scalability... of pricing
Security03 Dec 2024 | 5
Google offered millions to ally itself with trade body fighting Microsoft
Exclusive El Reg has seen the presentation to CISPE members which sources say was intended to keep the lawsuit over licensing alive
PaaS + IaaS28 Nov 2024 | 12
AWS bends to Broadcom's will with VMware Cloud Foundation as-a-service
Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM are all doing it. Andy Jassy's rent-a-server shop may have felt it was leaving money on the table
Virtualization26 Nov 2024 | 5
Amazon bets another $4B on Anthropic
You just gonna stand there, Google, let AWS take the 'primary training partner' title? Not gonna do nothing?
AI + ML22 Nov 2024 | 7
AWS gives its management screens a makeover in the name of improved productivity
Maybe it was crowded layout, inconsistent colors and drop shadows that made cloud so hard?
Off-Prem22 Nov 2024 | 6
Amazon leaves Snowcone data migration boxes and older Snowball edge kit out to melt
Don't worry, existing users have another year to use 'em or lose 'em
Off-Prem14 Nov 2024 | 2
AWS opens cluster of 40K Trainium AI accelerators to researchers
Throwing novel hardware at academia. It's a tale as old as time
Systems12 Nov 2024 | 2
Amazon confirms employee data exposed in leak linked to MOVEit vulnerability
Over 5 million records from 25 organizations posted to black hat forum
Cyber-crime12 Nov 2024 | 2
Amazon's nuclear datacenter dreams stall as watchdog rejects power deal
Updated Federal Energy Regulatory Commission cites grid stability concerns
On-Prem04 Nov 2024 | 57
Amazon to cough $75B on capex in 2024, more next year
Despite extending server lifespans, AI's power demands drive more datacenter builds
PaaS + IaaS01 Nov 2024 | 9
Amazon adds MFA to its enterprise email service ... eight years after launch
No rush, guys
On-Prem31 Oct 2024 | 1
Cloud repatriation officially a trend... for specific workloads
It's not a mass exodus, say analysts, but biz bods are bringing things down to earth
PaaS + IaaS30 Oct 2024 | 24
AWS Cloud Development Kit flaw exposed accounts to full takeover
Remember Bucket Monopoly? Yeah, it gets worse
Cybersecurity Month24 Oct 2024 | 13
Developer pockets $2M in savings from going cloud-free
37signals CTO claims cost of new hardware was 'entirely recouped' as contracts expired after AWS exit
On-Prem21 Oct 2024 | 58
AWS boss: Don't want to come back to the office? Go work somewhere else
It's our way or the highway
PaaS + IaaS18 Oct 2024 | 111
Amazon makes $500M bet on itty-bitty nuclear reactors to fuel cloud empire
The duo eyes a target of 5 GW online in US by 2039, assuming tech comes to fruition
Systems16 Oct 2024 | 38
Big data vendors introduce Apache Iceberg features in same week
Market rivals settle on open table format, while Microsoft and Databricks go their own way
Databases14 Oct 2024 | 4
AWS must fork out $30.5M after losing P2P network patent scrap
No one really wins when a troll, sorry, assertion entity scores a victory
Networks30 Sep 2024 | 31
Citrix adds remote Mac support, but some customers are grumpy
License changes and product bundles aren't going down well, says Gartner's DaaS magical quadrant
Virtualization20 Sep 2024 | 5
Cloud giants point the finger at each other during regulator hearings
Those are some mighty powerful underdogs you've got there
PaaS + IaaS18 Sep 2024 | 4
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