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- by Connor JonesSome account holders see names, salaries, and child benefit payments… just not their own Updated Customers of three major UK banks woke on Thursday to find incorrect transactions appearing in their apps, a problem later attributed to a technical glitch.…
- by O'Ryan JohnsonSnowflake, Red Hat, and others warn customers not to wait around for the cloud to recover After aerial strikes damaged AWS datacenters in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, Snowflake, Red Hat, and IoT platform EMQX have told customers to open their disaster recovery playbook and move to new bit barns.…
- by Richard SpeedBig Red's cloud that 'doesn't go down' goes down again An Oracle outage knocked parts of TikTok offline this week. The incident affected Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), which trails AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud in market share but counts the social media behemoth among its customers.…
- by Paul KunertKip Meeks walked a year early with the overseer of tech markets yet to take action against AWS and Microsoft The chair of the competition markets authority's cloud inquiry has quit, citing the slow pace of implementing recommendations outlined in a report it published in 2025 to boost market dynamics in Britain's cloud computing market.…
- by Lindsay ClarkDeputy governor tells MPs central bank now has in-house skills and IP to maintain revamped RTGS As the last Accenture employee clocked off from supporting the Bank of England's £431 million Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) system, the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street was assured it would no longer depend on the global consultancy.…
- by Tobias MannMultiple zones Middle East in UAE disrupted, with water damage complicating recovery UPDATED Multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) availability zones in the Middle East are experiencing outages or degraded connectivity after objects struck a UAE facility, as Iranian retaliatory missile and drone attacks hit targets across the Gulf.…
- by O'Ryan JohnsonSelling so many agents they've cooked up a way to measure what they do Even by the somewhat offbeat standards of the Salesforce Ohana, the CRM giant just delivered a strange earnings announcement.…
- by Richard SpeedAs transatlantic tensions rattle nerves, Microsoft offers a digital bunker to the sufficiently paranoid Updated Azure Local can now run fully disconnected with no cloud connectivity, Microsoft confirmed at the London leg of its AI tour.…
- by Lindsay ClarkBusiness Secretary praises Doug Gurr's pro-growth agenda Britain's competition regulator has tapped former Amazon UK chief Doug Gurr as preferred candidate for chair – a notable appointment given the watchdog's active investigations into major cloud providers.…
- by Dan RobinsonBezos-corp blames user error for outage, 'specifically misconfigured access controls' In a cautionary tale of agentic AI, AWS reportedly suffered service outages caused by its own AI coding tools in December – though the company insists the downtime was ultimately due to human error.…
- by Carly PageAttempt to go 'Made in EU' offers big tech escapees a reality check where lower cloud bills come with higher effort Building a startup entirely on European infrastructure sounds like a nice sovereignty flex right up until you actually try it and realize the real price gets paid in time, tinkering, and slowly unlearning a […]
- by Lindsay ClarkApologizes for 'inaccuracy' Exclusive Microsoft has said one of its leading spokespeople gave testimony to the UK Parliament containing an "inaccuracy" with regard to its dealings with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in response to US sanctions.…
- by Simon SharwoodYour chance to run a VM inside a VM, inside a cloud – which can mean WSL on a cloudy Windows PC Amazon Web Services has enabled nested virtualization for a handful of EC2 instances.…
- by Joe FayCompetitors asked to detail licensing terms, training costs, and business practices in widening antitrust inquiry The US Federal Trade Commission has sent out a raft of civil investigative demands to Microsoft's competitors as it warms up a probe into whether the cloud and software giant has an illegal monopoly across chunks of the enterprise tech […]
- by Dan RobinsonBig Red joins AWS on a multi-cloud defense platform Oracle has picked up an $88 million contract with the US Air Force to provide cloud infrastructure services for the department's Cloud One program.…
- by Simon SharwoodStill supported with no death date set, but no new features planned Salesforce has decided to stop developing new features for its Heroku platform-as-a-service.…
- by Lindsay ClarkGartner predicts strong uptake driven by concerns over reliance on foreign providers Updated European spending on sovereign cloud infrastructure services is forecast to more than triple from 2025 to 2027 as geopolitical tension drives investment in homegrown services, according to Gartner.…
- by Richard SpeedBusinesses still chase the cheapest option, but politics and licensing shocks are changing priorities, says OpenNebula Systems Interview Sovereignty remains a hot topic in the tech industry, but interpretations of what it actually means – and how much it matters – vary widely between organizations and sectors. While public bodies are often driven by regulation […]
- by SA Mathieson37 court applications shifted off failing kit, though some are camping in a temporary hosting facility The courts system in England and Wales has moved 37 applications out of two outdated datacenters, although some will use a temporary hosting facility until they are replaced, according to the senior civil servant responsible.…
- by Liam ProvenOpen source gains urgency as Europe reassesses reliance on US tech Open Source Policy Summit 2026 European tech leaders are waking up to the risk of the US simply turning off their IT services.…
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