UPDATED AWS warns of EC2 'impairment' as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region Extra aircon found to cool overheating datacenter as users complain their resources are... nowhere
PaaS + IaaS AWS lets agents drive its virtual cloudy desktops – which could cost 500,000 tokens per click if used carelessly Vendor benchmark finds APIs let you do the job faster and cheaper
Networks Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in Cupertino
Off-Prem AWS says acute server memory shortage is driving customers to the cloud When you can't get 'em with a 'transformation plan,' supply chain pain will do the job
AI + ML Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz The Trainium train keeps a-rollin'
Networks Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q1 Iran went dark twice, AWS got droned, oh and TalkTalk broke something it refuses to talk about
AI + ML AWS keynote hypes AI as magic. Its own engineers tell a different story No shortcuts, human-review everything, says internal team - and keep hiring junior developers
AI + ML OpenAI jumps out of Microsoft's bed, into Amazon's Bedrock Altman's gaggle of GPTs now available in limited preview in an AWS region near you
AI + ML Amazon unveils a Copilot for all your apps Retailer touts 'teammates' and always-on context as it muscles into an already crowded enterprise market
Systems Meta Arms itself to the teeth by signing for 'tens of millions' of AWS Graviton cores After flubbing the Metaverse, Zuck embraces the Neoverse
PaaS + IaaS Amazon would rather shareholders did not look too closely at carbon footprint Investors urged to reject proposal for more disclosure on whether AWS expansion risks climate goals
Systems AWS ponders selling its home-grown chips by the rack-load, has almost sold out AI capacity Annual CEO letter reveals two customers want all Graviton servers, huge drone rollout, a million robots, and more megalomania
CxO World's smallest violin spotted at Amazon HQ as exec pay packets deflate C-suite forced to take sandwiches into work, cycle home
AI + ML AWS: Agents shouldn't be secret, so we built a registry for them Your agent will be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numbered
Storage Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions The core product is solid and priced fairly
AI + ML AWS CEO: It's funny when people ask me if AI is overhyped Matt Garman sounds the alarm but plays down the SaaS-pocalypse at Human[X]
Off-Prem UK watchdog targets Microsoft licensing in cloud competition probe CMA to assess whether the company's terms unfairly favor Azure over rival platforms
PaaS + IaaS AWS would prefer to forget March ever happened in its UAE region Cloud giant waives an entire month of charges, then erases the billing data. There is literally nothing to see here.
AI + ML OpenAI now gets to decide which type of product assassin it will become AWS, Google, Broadcom, or Netscape?
Public Sector HMRC hands £473M Fujitsu migration deal to AWS after competition melts away Insiders say single-bidder process left little room for negotiation
Security Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks PLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!
PaaS + IaaS Europe's cloud minnows tell Brussels to stop big tech 'sovereignty-washing' 24 execs sign open letter demanding control-based definitions and reserved procurement
Off-Prem AWS giveth with its right hand and breaketh with its left Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by one very large org chart
Off-Prem AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches ‘hundreds of exabytes’ Cloudy storage service's scale gave it a hefty cultural footprint
AI + ML Amazon insists AI coding isn't source of outages E-souk disputes report linking 'Gen-AI assisted changes' to recent high-impact incidents
Cyber-crime EV charger biz ELECQ zapped by ransomware crooks, customer contact data stolen An attack on the company’s AWS platform may have exposed customers' names and home addresses
Off-Prem Iranian news service claims drone strikes on AWS were deliberate, to probe for US datacenter dependencies Remember: Truth is the first casualty of war
PaaS + IaaS AWS-hosted tech providers urge Middle East customers to fail over now Snowflake, Red Hat, and others warn customers not to wait around for the cloud to recover
PaaS + IaaS Cloud inquiry chair quits UK competition watchdog over glacial pace of reform Kip Meeks walked a year early with the overseer of tech markets yet to take action against AWS and Microsoft
Devops AWS backs Open VSX as Rust survey shows VS Code decline AI-first editors and agent-driven tooling intensify competition in the IDE market
PaaS + IaaS AWS says drones hit two of its datacenters in UAE, urges users to move resources to different regions Multiple zones Middle East in UAE disrupted, with water damage complicating recovery
Off-Prem AWS Middle East disrupted after ‘objects struck datacenter’ amid Iran war PLUS: AI claims 2,000 jobs at Australia’s WiseTech; Samsung wants humanoid robots for autonomous factories; Micron opens India plant; And more!
Cyber-crime AWS says more than 600 FortiGate firewalls hit in AI-augmented campaign Off-the-shelf tools helped Russian-speaking cybercrime group run riot
PaaS + IaaS Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play Attempt to go 'Made in EU' offers big tech escapees a reality check where lower cloud bills come with higher effort
On-Prem Amazon's $200 billion capex plan: How I learned to stop worrying and love negative free cash flow It isn't insane, and Amazon will be fine when the music stops. Other players, maybe not so much
Virtualization AWS adds nested virtualization option for handful of EC2 instances Your chance to run a VM inside a VM, inside a cloud – which can mean WSL on a cloudy Windows PC
Off-Prem Amazon can't build AI capacity fast enough, throws another $200B at the problem 'As fast as we install this AI capacity, we are monetizing it,' says Amazon CEO Andy Jassy
Cyber-crime AWS intruder achieved admin access in under 10 minutes thanks to AI assist, researchers say LLMs automated most phases of the attack
PaaS + IaaS AWS says you're on your own if media codec patent owners come knocking Service terms update removes infringement cover tied to audio and video encoding tech
PaaS + IaaS If you're one of the 16,000 Amazon employees getting laid off, read this It's not your fault
PaaS + IaaS AWS's inevitable destiny: becoming the next Lumen The cloud giant talks loudest about what scares it most. Here's what should terrify it
AI + ML Amazon CEO Andy Jassy goes wobbly on AI bubble possibility Sure it's a bubble and the deals are circular - that doesn't mean Amazon's not going to try to extract value from it
Research A simple CodeBuild flaw put every AWS environment at risk – and pwned 'the central nervous system of the cloud' And it's 'not unique to AWS,' researcher tells The Reg
PaaS + IaaS AWS flips switch on Euro cloud as customers fret about digital sovereignty EU-only ops, German subsidiaries, and a pinky promise your data won't end up in Uncle Sam's hands
On-Prem Virginia's datacenter tax breaks cost state $1.6B in 2025 Trillion-dollar internet giants don't need freebies, watchdog warns, as giveaways double in a year
PaaS + IaaS UK urged to unplug from US tech giants as digital sovereignty fears grow Campaigners say Britain's dependence on Big Tech leaves critical systems exposed to political pressure
PaaS + IaaS AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention An anomaly or the beginning of a new trend? My bet's on the latter
Virtualization AWS adds hybrid cloud storage support for Nutanix’s AHV hypervisor VMware's main challenger already embraces multiple storage options
PaaS + IaaS Europe gets serious about cutting digital umbilical cord with Uncle Sam's big tech Public bodies migrate in the bloc as hyperscalers claim sovereignty
Cyber-crime Crypto crooks co-opt stolen AWS creds to mine coins 'Within 10 minutes of gaining initial access, crypto miners were operational'
AI + ML Jassy taps 27-year Amazon veteran to run AGI org, which is now definitely a thing that exists Amazon bets that by making AI its own group, it can outpace Microsoft and Google
AWS Re:invent DJ Garman drops the ball instead of the bass in AWS re:Invent keynote But the 25 announcements in the last 10 minutes included a few well worth waiting for
The Future of the Datacenter Amazon’s Trainium3 is the latest to conform to Nvidia’s mold From Amazon to AMD, everything looks like an NVL72 now
Cyber-crime Beijing-linked hackers are hammering max-severity React bug, AWS warns State-backed attackers started poking flaw as soon as it dropped – anyone still unpatched is on borrowed time
AWS Re:invent Amazon keeps the pressure on Intel, AMD with 192-core Graviton5 CPU The homegrown chips now account for half of all new CPUs added to AWS over the past three years
AWS Re:invent Escaping the squeeze: your strategy for a confident VMware-to-AWS migration Make the transition with confidence in this focused webinar
AWS Re:invent Amazon is forging a walled garden for enterprise AI AWS Chief Matt Garman lays out his vision bringing artificial intelligence to the enterprise
AWS Re:invent AWS admits AI coding tools cause problems, reckons its three new agents fix 'em Autonomous AI triages DevOps issues and pushes code to repositories, while checking security
AWS Re:invent AWS joins Microsoft, Google in the security AI agent race Preview tool promises quicker reviews and faster flaw-finding for cloud apps
AWS Re:invent Amazon primed to fuse Nvidia's NVLink into 4th-gen Trainium accelerators Meanwhile, Trainium3 makes its debut promising million-chip training clusters
AWS Re:invent AWS: How do you do, fellow kids? Please watch our keynotes in Fortnite Drive around a virtual track in Las Vegas while watching Matt Garman speak on in-game billboards
AWS Re:invent AWS and Google build a fix for multi-cloud barriers they said didn't exist After reassuring regulators all was well, pair debut interconnect to smooth the bumps
Off-Prem UK Digital Services Tax raises £800M from global tech giants Treasury haul beats early forecasts, yet captures only a fraction of the revenue generated in Britain
PaaS + IaaS AWS builds a DNS backstop to allow changes when its notoriously flaky US East region wobbles 60-minute RTO means big outages can still happen
Cyber-crime Botnet takes advantage of AWS outage to smack 28 countries Even worse, it might have been a 'test run' for future attacks
Off-Prem 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
SaaS Praise Amazon for raising this service from the dead The hardest part is admitting you were wrong, which AWS did.
Science Amazon-backed X-energy sweet talks investors into another $700M for small modular reactor dream Start-up claims to have booked orders for 144 miniaturized reactors totaling 11GW across US and UK
AWS Re:invent 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:invent Brussels eyes AWS, Azure for gatekeeper tag in cloud clampdown European Commission probes whether Amazon and Microsoft wield outsized control under Digital Markets Act
AWS Re:invent 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
PaaS + IaaS 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 + IaaS Boffins: cloud computing's on-demand biz model is failing us Science loses when lab workers grapple with costs and availability, claim researchers
Devops Deploying to Amazon's cloud is a pain in the AWS younger devs won't tolerate They have no need to prove their bonafides
Security AWS, Nvidia, CrowdStrike seek security startups to enter the arena Last year's winner scored a $65M funding round on a $300M valuation
AI + ML 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
Off-Prem Amazon juggernaut continues hauling in more cash despite recent bad news The spending will continue until AI revenue improves
PaaS + IaaS Azure's bad night fuels fresh calls for cloud diversification in Europe Time to put eggs in more than one basket?
AI + ML AWS Stargate-smashing Rainier AI megacluster is up and running Half a million Trainium2 chips now running Anthropic workloads, with half a million more waiting in the wings
PaaS + IaaS UK politicians to draft outage blueprint after AWS calamity 60% of government services rely on Amazon, Google, or Microsoft's clouds
Off-Prem Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region in trouble again, with EC2 and container services impacted Internal dependencies again prove problematic
AI + ML Amazon axes 14,000 desk jobs in AI-powered slimming plan Layoffs are part of an efficiency drive, not a sign of struggle, says HR exec
PaaS + IaaS Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS, and that's a problem 'The problem is the concentration of power in the infrastructure space that means there isn’t really another choice'
SaaS As AI agents join SaaS, AWS tells users to expect more pricing puzzles Cloud giant says choice and flexibility matter more than standardization – for now
PaaS + IaaS Everything you know about last week's AWS outage is wrong AI wasn't the cause, and multi-cloud is for rubes
PaaS + IaaS The perfect AWS storm has blown over, but the climate is only getting worse When it rains, it pours – and nobody packed an umbrella
PaaS + IaaS 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
Off-Prem With impeccable timing, AWS debuts automated cloud incident report generator We could really have used this a couple of days ago, guys
AI + ML 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
PaaS + IaaS 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
Public Sector AWS offers $1B credit to slash Uncle Sam's cloud bills - and lock in as a provider until at least 2028
Cloud Infrastructure Month When hyperscalers can’t safeguard one nation’s data from another, dark clouds are ahead
Cloud Infrastructure Month Not so SaaSy now: Oracle sugars BYOL deals as AWS database tie-in goes live
On-Prem Amazon built a massive AI supercluster for Anthropic called Project Rainier – here's what we know so far
The State of Storage 37signals is completing its on-prem move, deleting its AWS account to save millions
CSO Abandoned AWS S3 buckets can be reused in supply-chain attacks that would make SolarWinds look 'insignificant'
Security Medical monitoring machines spotted stealing patient data, users warned to pull the plug ASAP
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