A single DNS race condition brought Amazon's cloud empire to its knees
Fault in DynamoDB system cascaded through AWS services, knocking major sites offline for hours
PaaS + IaaS23 Oct 2025 | 115
AWS
With impeccable timing, AWS debuts automated cloud incident report generator
We could really have used this a couple of days ago, guys
Off-Prem23 Oct 2025 | 20
Dropping Nvidia for Amazon's custom chips helped gene therapy startup Metagenomi cut AI bill 56%
It's not the size of your accelerator, it's how you use it
AI + ML22 Oct 2025 | 8
AWS outage turned smart homes into dumb boxes – and sysadmins into therapists
Amazon's hours-long cloud blackout transformed the future of sleep into a sauna and cat care into chaos
PaaS + IaaS21 Oct 2025 | 148
AWS admits more bits of its cloud broke as it recovered from DynamoDB debacle
12 more hours of pain followed initial outage
Off-Prem21 Oct 2025 | 65
Amazon brain drain finally sent AWS down the spout
column When your best engineers log off for good, don’t be surprised when the cloud forgets how DNS works
PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2025 | 188
BROADER TOPICS
NARROWER TOPICS
AWS outage exposes Achilles heel: central control plane
Analysis Too many services depend not just on one cloud provider, but on one location
Off-Prem20 Oct 2025 | 67
Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet
Amazon reports DNS issues hitting DynamoDB, leaving services from Roblox to McDonald's struggling
PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2025 | 223
£2B UK cloud licensing claim against Microsoft seeks more business backers
Updated Action alleges Redmond unfairly hikes costs for businesses running Windows Server outside Azure
Software15 Oct 2025 | 5
Amazon's Quick Suite is like agentic AI training wheels for enterprises
Slow down there Andy; you wouldn't want to bump into any hallucinations
AI + ML09 Oct 2025 | 1
Subpoena tracking platform blames outage on AWS social engineering attack
Software maker Kodex said its domain registrar fell for a fraudulent legal order
Cybersecurity Month02 Oct 2025 |
Microsoft, Linode, warn of cloud latency spikes due to Middle East submarine cable problems
Asia In Brief PLUS: Lenovo to sell bonkers clip-on-screen; AWS NZ rumblings; Google helps catch South Korean phish
Off-Prem07 Sep 2025 | 2
AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard'
They're cheap and grew up with AI … so you're firing them why?
Software21 Aug 2025 | 88
AWS still cares enough about Intel to order up a fresh batch of custom Xeons
Memory bandwidth boost appears to be the secret sauce in chips used for new memory optimized instance types
Off-Prem20 Aug 2025 | 1
AWS pricing for Kiro dev tool dubbed 'a wallet-wrecking tragedy'
Updated Amazon giant blames pricing bug after updated plans way more expensive than initially suggested
AI + ML18 Aug 2025 | 29
AWS offers $1B credit to slash Uncle Sam's cloud bills - and lock in as a provider until at least 2028
What, you don't expect them to keep using Microsoft with its Chinese cloud admins, do you?
Public Sector07 Aug 2025 | 5
AWS wiped my account of 10 years, says open source dev
Updated Cloud giant erased decade of work – denies it was due to botched dry run of user-pruning tool
Cloud Infrastructure Month06 Aug 2025 | 80
Untangling the Jeff Bezos web: Who pays for the billionaire's space lust?
Blue Origin and Amazon's Kuiper satellite program are an arm's length apart
Science04 Aug 2025 | 21
When hyperscalers can’t safeguard one nation’s data from another, dark clouds are ahead
Opinion If it’s not on-prem, it’s on the menu
Cloud Infrastructure Month04 Aug 2025 | 41
Amazon is spending a boatload on AI but investors are impatient for results
Hang in there, it's early days, insists CEO Andy Jassy
AI + ML31 Jul 2025 | 7
Brit watchdog pushes to rein in Microsoft and AWS with 'strategic market status'
Regulators around the globe pay attention as results of 21-month cloud probe published
PaaS + IaaS31 Jul 2025 | 8
AWS Lambda loves charging for idle time: Vercel claims it found a way to dodge the bill
Startup’s workaround reuses stuck compute slots to rein in runaway function costs
Devops31 Jul 2025 | 12
'Impossible hill to climb': US clouds crush European competition on their home turf
Local providers squeezed out despite market growth, leaving sovereignty hopes in question
PaaS + IaaS28 Jul 2025 | 25
Compromised Amazon Q extension told AI to delete everything – and it shipped
Malicious actor reportedly sought to expose AWS 'security theater'
Security24 Jul 2025 | 9
AWS closes China AI research center, citing boilerplate 'business priorities'
Nvidia's Jensen Huang just had a win with his argument that the world needs China’s AI brains, now this
AI + ML24 Jul 2025 | 3
NatWest banks on AWS and Accenture for AI-driven customer overhaul
Deal adds to a string of relationships based on improving data and analytics
Databases23 Jul 2025 | 8
AWS slaps usage caps on Kiro as AI editor preview proves too popular for its own good
'Actually not terrible' says industry watcher Corey Quinn – but pricing plans have disappeared
AI + ML21 Jul 2025 | 2
Not so SaaSy now: Oracle sugars BYOL deals as AWS database tie-in goes live
Big Red incentivizes perpetual licenses with 76% savings as it parks racks in hyperscaler datacenters
Cloud Infrastructure Month18 Jul 2025 | 2
Time for Britain's CMA to strike hard – or risk losing the cloud competition fight
Comment With watchdog set to publish report into health of market next month, will it hold AWS and Microsoft's feet to the fire?
PaaS + IaaS18 Jul 2025 | 26
Laid-off AWS employee describes cuts as 'cold and soulless'
Insiders tell The Register that a company-wide automation push means jobs are disappearing
AI + ML18 Jul 2025 | 63
AWS goes full speed ahead on the AI agent train
Video Running on Amazon Bedrock, AgentCore aims to pave the path from prototype to production
AI + ML17 Jul 2025 | 2
AWS previews Kiro IDE for developers who are over vibe coding
Delivers specs in the form of user stories
AI + ML14 Jul 2025 | 12
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
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
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 | 66
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 | 44
'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
Biting the hand that feeds IT
