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
Cloud Computing
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
Oracle offers workaround to Windows boot issue in the cloud instead of fix
Kludge causing production outages
Cloud Infrastructure Month01 Aug 2025 | 6
NARROWER TOPICS
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
Microsoft hails cloud and AI revenue for boffo earnings
Azure numbers shared for the first time. No details about AI, however.
Software30 Jul 2025 | 7
Clouds and submarine cables report no impact from sixth-largest earthquake in recorded history, subsequent tsunami
Russian rumbler has authorities across the Pacific warning of possible problems
Science30 Jul 2025 | 5
Microsoft used staff in China to help babysit US govt cloud services, report says
But they were supervised by American 'digital escorts'
Public Sector28 Jul 2025 | 14
'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
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
EU cloud gang wins Microsoft concessions, but fair software licensing group brands them 'stalling tactic'
Updated Pay-as-you-go model, privacy protections agreed – but critics say it just buys 'Microsoft more time to lock in customers'
PaaS + IaaS18 Jul 2025 |
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
Iran seeks at least three cloud providers to power its government
Despite loathing the USA, Iran wants providers who match NIST’s definition of cloud computing
Public Sector14 Jul 2025 | 9
Bank of England expands data and cloud framework by £26.7 million after revising data strategy
Dependent on SAP and Oracle, UK central bank wants to modernize in the cloud, refresh data strategy
Public Sector25 Jun 2025 | 4
Microsoft testing PC-to-Cloud-PC failover for those times your machine dies or disappears
‘Windows 365 Reserve’ will be usable ten days a year for undisclosed fee
Virtualization19 Jun 2025 | 34
Pulsant and Nine23 offer sovereign service for UK govt, regulated sectors
Amid growing unease that US may compel cloud providers to hand over European data
Systems18 Jun 2025 | 8
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
Microsoft brings 365 suite on-prem as part of sovereign cloud push
Mostly aimed at Europe and its increasingly nervous users
Software17 Jun 2025 | 41
Alt cloud platform Railway forced to pause lowest tiers after onrush of GCP customers
A moment of panic as some customers thought the free tiers were going away
PaaS + IaaS16 Jun 2025 | 5
Google Cloud caused outage by ignoring its usual code quality protections
Promises operational change - and improvements to customer comms when it crashes
Off-Prem16 Jun 2025 | 26
Larry Ellison is still not the world's richest person
Oracle’s 80-year-old co-founder pulls off a $25 billion cloud day to leapfrog Zuck and Bezos into the No. 2 spot
Databases13 Jun 2025 | 42
Enterprise AI adoption stalls as inferencing costs confound cloud customers
Please insert another million dollars to continue
PaaS + IaaS13 Jun 2025 | 9
Oracle scores cloud customer – maybe China's TEMU – that wants any available server, anytime, anywhere
Big Red hails growth from 'astronomical' and 'insatiable' demand for cloud and huge IaaS growth
PaaS + IaaS12 Jun 2025 | 3
Tinfoil hat wearers can thank AI for declassification of JFK docs
Plus: AWS launches second Secret-level cloud region
AI + ML10 Jun 2025 | 28
Europe's cloud datacenter ambition 'completely crazy' says SAP CEO
Christian Klein sees little benefit from trying to compete with the dominant hyperscalers
On-Prem09 Jun 2025 | 62
As Europe eyes move from US hyperscalers, IONOS dismisses scaleability worries
Interview The world has changed. EU hosting CTO says not considering alternatives is 'negligent'
PaaS + IaaS06 Jun 2025 | 36
IBM Cloud login breaks for second time this week and Big Blue isn't saying why
To make matters worse, IBM's security software has a critical vuln caused by an exposed password
Off-Prem05 Jun 2025 | 8
‘Deliberate attack’ deletes shopping app’s AWS and GitHub resources
CEO of India's KiranaPro, which brings convenience stores online, vows to name the perp
Cyber-crime04 Jun 2025 | 22
AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret about Trump 2.0
Locally run, Euro-controlled, ‘legally independent,' and ready by the end of 2025
PaaS + IaaS03 Jun 2025 | 46
IBM Cloud login breaks for second time in a fortnight
Sev-1 incident downs support portals and means application data paths ‘may be affected’
Off-Prem03 Jun 2025 | 9
Poll of 1,000 senior techies: Euro execs mull use of US clouds
IT leaders in region eyeing American hyperscalers escape hatch
PaaS + IaaS28 May 2025 | 11
Unhappy with the cloud costs? You're not alone
And it's all your fault
PaaS + IaaS28 May 2025 | 35
VMware price hikes? Between 800 and 1,500%, claim Euro customers
Report slates end of perpetual licenses, death of monthly pay-as-you-go model, and 'punitive' changes by Broadcom
PaaS + IaaS22 May 2025 | 54
Google backs down after locking out Nextcloud Files app
Search giant to restore critical Android permission after user outcry
Applications17 May 2025 | 25
Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection
Exclusive Claims policy change is really just a way to squeeze out competition
Applications13 May 2025 | 29
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
China's Loongson gets OpenStack boost from Inspur on its MIPS-y silicon
State-backed chip slinger inches closer to cloud-scale relevance
PaaS + IaaS06 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
Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers
'It's amazing how fast the change has been'
PaaS + IaaS17 Apr 2025 | 119
Microsoft OneDrive file sync apps for Windows, Mac broken for 10 months
Updated Users, unsurprisingly, are not pleased and feel forgotten amid Redmond's Copilot frenzy
OSes14 Apr 2025 | 67
The Reg translates the letter in which Oracle kinda-sorta tells customers it was pwned
TL;DR: Move along, still nothing to see here - an idea that leaves infosec pros aghast
Cyber-crime10 Apr 2025 | 28
Legal clock ticking for Microsoft over alleged software license abuses
With weeks to meet terms of settlement agreement, engineers in Redmond still don't have a product to show CISPE
PaaS + IaaS07 Apr 2025 | 10
OpenStack delivers ‘Epoxy’ release, which it hopes will unglue more VMware customers
The BBC and Blizzard Entertainment have chipped in with contributions
On-Prem03 Apr 2025 | 8
Oracle Cloud security SNAFU latest: IT giant accused of pedantry as evidence scrubbed
1990s incident response in 2025
PaaS + IaaS31 Mar 2025 | 8
CoreWeave cools its jets, downsizing IPO as investor heat fades
That stands for I Probably Overestimated?
AI + ML28 Mar 2025 | 3
It looks like IBM is cutting jobs again, with Classic Cloud hit hard
We're told thousands may soon get a pink slip from Big Blue
On-Prem20 Mar 2025 | 32
Time to ditch US tech for homegrown options, says Dutch parliament
Trump administration 'has made the call for tech sovereignty an urgent geopolitical issue'
PaaS + IaaS19 Mar 2025 | 138
Datacenter vacancies hit record low as power shortages stall projects
Analysis Supply chain and tariffs issues could spell trouble across multiple markets, warns JLL
Systems19 Mar 2025 | 2
Curious tale of two HR tech unicorns, alleged espionage, and claims of a spy hiding in a bathroom
Updated There's nothing bog-standard about this bombshell loo-suit
Bootnotes18 Mar 2025 | 25
Euro techies call for sovereign fund to escape Uncle Sam's digital death grip
Nearly 100 orgs plead for homegrown lifeline amid geopolitical tensions
Public Sector17 Mar 2025 | 107
Oracle yet to sign a Stargate contract or predict revenue from AI mega-build
Guessed tax obligations wrong which helped to disappoint Wall Street even as sales boomed
Off-Prem11 Mar 2025 | 4
CoreWeave rides AI wave with IPO filing – but its fate hinges on Microsoft
GPU farm discloses 77% of revenue tied to just two customers, putting Redmond giant front and center
AI + ML04 Mar 2025 |
Microsoft Exchange Admin Center takes extended siesta in the EU
Updated Wasn't the cloud supposed to be the cheap, reliable option?
SaaS04 Mar 2025 | 7
Windows 365 Disaster Recovery Plus promises Cloud PC comebacks in 30 minutes
Presumably hosted by AWS?
Disaster Recovery Week04 Mar 2025 | 22
How the collapse of local cloud provider caused biz continuity issues in UK government
And that was on top of a £17.5M underwriting bill for insolvent UKCloud
Disaster Recovery Week03 Mar 2025 | 52
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
Under Trump 2.0, Europe's dependence on US clouds back under the spotlight
Interview Technologist Bert Hubert tells The Reg Microsoft Outlook is a huge source of geopolitical risk
Off-Prem26 Feb 2025 | 124
Why SAP may be mulling 2030 end of maintenance for legacy ERP
Users' sluggish migration of critical apps mean current deadline not workable, says analyst
Databases12 Feb 2025 | 21
Biting the hand that feeds IT
