Uncle Sam sues ex-Accenture manager over Army cloud security claims
Justice Department alleges federal auditors were misled over compliance with FedRAMP and DoD requirements
Off-Prem12 Dec 2025 | 7
Cloud Computing
Oracle raises AI spending estimate, spooks investors
But if you assume cloud IOUs will be fulfilled, business is booming
Databases11 Dec 2025 | 15
Alibaba Cloud can’t deploy servers fast enough to satisfy demand for AI
Chinese giant adds to ‘No AI bubble’ babble by citing oversubscribed infrastructure and surging demand
Off-Prem26 Nov 2025 | 2
AWS to build 1.3 gigawatts of government-grade supercomputing power for Uncle Sam
Aims to wash away Washington's vast tech woes with a dose of cloud magic
Off-Prem25 Nov 2025 | 7
OVH CEO predicts some cloud prices to rise 5-10 percent by mid-2026
Or maybe even sooner, warns Octave Klaba, as AI sends storage costs soaring
Off-Prem24 Nov 2025 | 8
AWS under pressure as big three battle to eat the cloud market
Google and Microsoft are catching up, while Oracle and neoclouds are growing from a small base
AWS Re:invent20 Nov 2025 | 9
NARROWER TOPICS
Microsoft-SAP pact aims to keep Euro cloud running in a crisis
Vendors set up sovereign fallback so customers aren't stranded by foreign interference
Off-Prem19 Nov 2025 | 7
Developer made one wrong click and sent his AWS bill into the stratosphere
Who, Me? Yes, he knows the 40x increase could have been avoided with some pretty simple automation
Columnists17 Nov 2025 | 72
Geopolitics push European CIOs to think local on cloud
Majority of customers plan to favor domestic providers as sovereignty fears rise
AWS Re:invent13 Nov 2025 | 13
Atlassian twice shunned AWS Graviton CPUs, but now runs Jira and Confluence on them
Bills fell 10 percent after granular tests suggested JVM tweaks that improved performance
AWS Re:invent13 Nov 2025 | 15
Microsoft's data sovereignty: Now with extra sovereignty!
Under shadow of US CLOUD Act, Redmond releases raft of services to calm customers in the EU
PaaS + IaaS07 Nov 2025 | 47
Rideshare giant moves 200 Macs out of the cloud, saves $2.4 million
Grab tried to virtualize macOS, but Apple doesn’t make that easy
On-Prem07 Nov 2025 | 55
Boffins: cloud computing's on-demand biz model is failing us
Science loses when lab workers grapple with costs and availability, claim researchers
PaaS + IaaS06 Nov 2025 | 29
Azure stumbles in Western Europe, Microsoft blames 'thermal event'
Degraded performance and possible dependency problems across AZs
PaaS + IaaS05 Nov 2025 | 21
Uncle Sam lets Google take Wiz for $32B
Second time's the charm for after Wiz rejected Google's $23B offer last year
Security05 Nov 2025 | 3
Google Cloud suspended customer's account three times, for three different reasons
Experience leads company boss to decide 'I cannot rely on having a Google account for production use cases'
Off-Prem04 Nov 2025 | 55
OpenAI spreads the imaginary wealth beyond Microsoft with $38B AWS deal
Amazon deal still dwarfed by $250B Azure commitment made as part of OpenAI's for-profit transformation
AI + ML03 Nov 2025 | 9
Azure's bad night fuels fresh calls for cloud diversification in Europe
Time to put eggs in more than one basket?
PaaS + IaaS30 Oct 2025 | 66
Microsoft Azure challenges AWS for downtime crown
Azure Front Door service outage disrupts airlines and other online services
PaaS + IaaS29 Oct 2025 | 35
EY exposes 4TB+ SQL database to open internet for who knows how long
The Big Four biz’s big fat fail exposed a boatload of secrets online
Security29 Oct 2025 | 55
Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region in trouble again, with EC2 and container services impacted
UPDATED Internal dependencies again prove problematic
Off-Prem29 Oct 2025 | 51
UK government inflates G-Cloud framework to £14B
Procurement delays and lock-in fears see framework balloon in size and scope
Public Sector28 Oct 2025 | 10
IBM Cloud stops signing and seeking new customers for its VMware service
Blames Broadcom’s licensing changes that haven’t caused other hyperscalers to pull the pin
Off-Prem28 Oct 2025 | 24
EU sovereignty plan accused of helping US cloud giants
Brussels' framework muddies the waters and could hand advantage to foreign hyperscalers, says trade body
PaaS + IaaS27 Oct 2025 | 11
The perfect AWS storm has blown over, but the climate is only getting worse
Opinion When it rains, it pours – and nobody packed an umbrella
PaaS + IaaS27 Oct 2025 | 27
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
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
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
Alibaba reveals 82 percent GPU resource savings – but this is no DeepSeek moment
Better scheduling and resource-sharing for inferencing workloads using multiple models, not a training breakthrough
Off-Prem21 Oct 2025 |
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
Microsoft's OneDrive spots your mates, remembers their faces, and won't forget easily
Then shalt thee change the setting three times, no more!
Storage13 Oct 2025 | 101
SaaS turbo-charged software spending tough for CIOs to control, says research
Consulting biz reckons ballooning costs a result of changes in licensing, vendor landscape, and product shifts
SaaS02 Oct 2025 | 2
US gov shutdown leaves IT projects hanging, security defenders a skeleton crew
The longer the shutdown, the less likely critical IT overhauls happen, ex federal CISO tells The Register
Cybersecurity Month01 Oct 2025 | 35
The cloud reset is a financial reckoning in disguise
Private cloud solutions are making a comeback
Partner Content
California lawmakers pretend to regulate AI, create a pile of paperwork
LLM makers have to file a steady stream of reports in the name of transparency
AI + ML30 Sep 2025 | 6
Oracle will have to borrow at least $25B a year to fund AI fantasy, says analyst
Bubble, you say? OpenAI will borrow billions to pay Big Red, who will borrow billions on the hope OpenAI pays it
AI + ML29 Sep 2025 | 33
Dell enters the earbud market with kit you can control from the cloud
Apple prices meet Dell style
Personal Tech26 Sep 2025 | 18
Alibaba Cloud plans expansion into Europe and South America
More datacenters in familiar territories, too, and AI everywhere
Off-Prem25 Sep 2025 | 3
US Navy: I can't quit you, Azure
AWS, Google, and Oracle admitted they can't support current setup
PaaS + IaaS24 Sep 2025 | 33
Senator demands to know status of 'duplicate' Social Security database 'immediately'
It’s a Republican pressing after DOGE whistleblower flags hostile work environment
Public Sector11 Sep 2025 | 29
Big clouds scramble as EU Data Act brings new data transfer rules
Updated Arbitrarily inflated lock-in-tastic fees curbed as movement charges must be cost-linked
PaaS + IaaS10 Sep 2025 | 10
Oracle boasts $455B backlog from AI boom, but not all its new friends will live to pay up
Comment With extinction event predicted, Big Red's four-year forecasts will have to meet reality
AI + ML10 Sep 2025 | 10
Mega-and-MAGA deals position Oracle's Larry Ellison to overtake Elon
Big Red's profits are flat, but its order book is phat
Databases10 Sep 2025 | 22
SAP splashes €20B on Euro sovereign cloud push
German giant takes aim at US hyperscaler dominance as some EU customers fret amid Trump 2.0 rhetoric
PaaS + IaaS04 Sep 2025 | 13
IBM Cloud to end free human support, suggests customers use enhanced AI instead
Shift to self-service will apparently improve support, presumably Big Blue's bottom line too
PaaS + IaaS04 Sep 2025 | 12
Alibaba Cloud reveals its uptime and efficiency secrets developed by in-house network boffins
eBPF, shared SmartNICs, and smart scheduling have improved reliability and cut costs
Networks02 Sep 2025 | 2
Azure budget alerts go berserk after Microsoft account migration misfire
Cloud customers left reeling as forecasts leap hundreds of percent
PaaS + IaaS01 Sep 2025 | 20
Cloud computing has become so normal, it's invisible
Feature Maybe someday we'll just call it 'data processing' again
Cloud Infrastructure Month29 Aug 2025 | 9
'It isn't designed to solve privacy concerns,' Grafana CTO says of Bring Your Own Cloud
INTERVIEW Think BYOC will solve all your sovereignty and privacy worries? You might be missing the point
Cloud Infrastructure Month28 Aug 2025 |
Solo.io boss: I was wrong, I made mistakes – and that made me a better CEO
Interview Idit Levine on going from startup to a billion-dollar valuation
Cloud Infrastructure Month28 Aug 2025 | 9
Microsoft can't guarantee data sovereignty – OVHcloud says 'We told you so'
Interview French provider seizes on Redmond's admission that US law could override local protections
Cloud Infrastructure Month27 Aug 2025 | 62
Defiant Broadcom calls for tech to go back where it belongs: On-premises
Expands VMware Cloud Foundation with AI freebie, new security and storage bits
VMware Explore26 Aug 2025 | 26
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
More customers asking for Google's Data Boundary, says Cloud Experience boss
Interview Developer demand for sovereign cloud from tech giant is on the rise, says exec
Security19 Aug 2025 | 6
Oracle cuts cloud jobs with Seattle hit hard as AI spending soars
AI will take your salary in capex before it can take your job
PaaS + IaaS15 Aug 2025 | 11
Amazon's $100B DC spend similar to entire Costa Rica GDP
Microsoft cap-ex larger than output of Uganda and Google trumps Slovenia... all in the name of AI
Cloud Infrastructure Month14 Aug 2025 | 8
Colo operators flock to emerging markets to build DCs
Joburg and Warsaw among the hotspots for sprawling server farm construction
On-Prem12 Aug 2025 | 2
IBM Cloud hit by Severity One incident with the same symptoms as other recent SNAFUs
Outages, degraded service, and login troubles hit 10 regions and 27 services
Off-Prem12 Aug 2025 | 20
Fed cloud contracts up 2x this year after red tape slashing
Biden-era program has reduced FedRAMP processing times to just five weeks from previous year or more
Public Sector11 Aug 2025 | 1
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
Microsoft briefly turned off Indian company’s cloud, perhaps due to EU sanctions on Russia
Oh, the irony of Europe demonstrating the importance of the sovereign cloud it craves
Off-Prem04 Aug 2025 | 32
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