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- by O'Ryan JohnsonWARN filings in two states show 1,000+ layoffs, but wider cuts remain unconfirmed By his third failed attempt to log into Oracle’s VPN on Tuesday morning, a decades-long employee of the company started to get a bad feeling.…
- by Corey QuinnCloud giant waives an entire month of charges, then erases the billing data. There is literally nothing to see here. I received an email / billing notification from AWS this week that may be the most diplomatically crafted communication in the history of cloud computing. Here it is, stripped of the usual boilerplate around it:…
- by Dan RobinsonCentral bank turns to homegrown providers to underpin virtual cash push Europe is taking a small step toward breaking its reliance on US Big Tech by hiring only cloud operators headquartered in the EU to work on the backbone of the digital euro project.…
- by Bill McCluggageEvery month of 'careful consideration' is another month Redmond laughs all the way to the bank Here's the uncomfortable truth: every week the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) hesitates on its decision on the outcome of its public cloud services market investigation, the meter keeps running and taxpayers continue to foot the bill.…
- by Carly PageMillions of hijacked devices powered traffic floods targeting defense systems and beyond The US government has moved to disrupt a cluster of IoT botnets behind some of the largest DDoS attacks ever recorded, including traffic bursts topping 30 terabits per second.…
- by Richard SpeedPerks fall short as third-party AI models rack up costs with minimal notification Complaints about Microsoft's startup credits and Azure AI Foundry keep mounting, with users reporting surprise credit card charges and invoices they never saw coming.…
- by Lindsay ClarkStrategy launched after 2020 share price crash is 24% behind target Five years after launching its rescue plan to lift ERP users to the cloud and switch them to the latest software, SAP is off target by about €2 billion, The Register can reveal.…
- by Dan Robinson24 execs sign open letter demanding control-based definitions and reserved procurement Execs from 24 European cloud and digital service providers are urging the European Commission to legislate for real tech sovereignty – not the illusion of it – in the upcoming Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA).…
- by Simon SharwoodCompute, storage, and SaaS all slugged – even on Alibaba's own silicon Alibaba Cloud today informed users it will increase prices for many services by up to 34 percent.…
- Azure startup credits don't apply to Claude via Azure AI Foundry, reader finds – after $1,600 chargeby Richard SpeedGets bounced between Microsoft and Anthropic like a support ticket nobody wants to own Companies using credits bundled with Microsoft for Startups have found some unwelcome surprises on their credit card statements after deploying Anthropic's Claude via Azure AI Foundry.…
- 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 Meek 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.…
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