Amazon’s firm denial that “AWS is operating normally” was the most visible line in a confusing, multi‑cloud disruption that left outage trackers and frustrated users pointing fingers at both Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure — even as vendor status pages told two different stories about...
Amazon Web Services reported that it was “operating normally” after a fresh wave of outage reports on Wednesday, insisting that Downdetector spikes and social-media complaints did not reflect any active incidents on AWS systems — even as Microsoft simultaneously logged an Azure disruption tied...
NetCom Learning’s new Multi‑Cloud Generative AI training bundles promise to give enterprise teams a single, vendor‑authorized path from strategy to hands‑on implementation across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud (including Gemini), and AI‑specific certifications — a packaged combination...
A massive Amazon Web Services outage on October 20, 2025 knocked hundreds of major websites and apps offline and left global internet traffic sluggish for hours, exposing the deep concentration of modern online infrastructure in a handful of cloud regions and the cascading fragility that follows...
The internet’s architecture tilted on October 20 when a regional Amazon Web Services failure turned into a global reminder: the web now runs on an exceptionally small set of cloud primitives—and when those primitives hiccup, the ripple is enormous. The Fast Company piece arguing that “the AWS...
National Australia Bank’s decision to run across Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services marks a decisive acceleration of its cloud-first transformation — a move NAB says pushes almost 90% of its applications into public cloud and reduces critical outages by nearly 90%, while...
Thoughtgreen Technologies’ recent press release positioning its “Thoughtgreen Cloud Services” as a turnkey, multi‑cloud partner for AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud marks a familiar — but important — narrative: boutique cloud integrators are packaging engineering depth, security posture...
Oracle’s multi‑cloud push has moved from a defensive interoperability play to a full‑blown growth narrative that is already reshaping how enterprises, hyperscalers and investors think about cloud infrastructure and database strategy. The company’s recent investor disclosures, high‑profile...
ProsperOps has been named a winner of the 2025 CloudX Award in the Cloud Management category, a recognition that spotlights the company’s expansion from autonomous discount management into synchronized workload scheduling and outcome-driven FinOps automation.
Background
ProsperOps launched in...
A new Principled Technologies (PT) study circulating as a press release this week argues that deploying a retrieval‑augmented generation (RAG) AI application entirely on Microsoft Azure — instead of splitting model hosting and search/compute across providers — can materially improve latency...
Orange County’s IT shop has opened a formal conversation about moving major workloads off Microsoft Azure, issuing a Request for Information (RFI) that explicitly asks the market how to migrate applications, virtual machines, storage, databases and networking from Azure to another cloud — a move...
A new Principled Technologies (PT) study — circulated as a press release and picked up by partner outlets — argues that adopting a single‑cloud approach for AI on Microsoft Azure can produce concrete benefits in performance, manageability, and cost predictability, while also leaving room for...
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Microsoft's Azure cloud felt the ripple effects of a string of undersea fiber cuts in the Red Sea on September 6, 2025, as traffic carrying vital Asia–Europe and Middle East connections was forced onto longer, more congested routes — a stark reminder that even the largest cloud platforms remain...
Microsoft warned that Azure customers could see increased latency after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables were cut in the Red Sea, forcing emergency rerouting of traffic and exposing fragile single points in global cloud and internet infrastructure.
Background
The disruption began on...
Microsoft warned Azure customers on September 6, 2025 that parts of its global cloud network are experiencing higher-than-normal latency and intermittent service degradation after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer detours while carriers and...
Microsoft has warned that users of its Azure cloud may see higher-than-normal latency and intermittent disruptions after multiple undersea fiber-optic cables in the Red Sea were cut, forcing traffic onto longer alternate routes while repair work and global rerouting continue.
Background
The Red...
Microsoft’s earnings call landed like a shot across the bow of the quantum industry: Satya Nadella declared that “the next big accelerator in the cloud will be quantum,” and the company paired that statement with concrete technical milestones—an operational Level 2 deployment in partnership with...
The global infrastructure-as-a-service market surged again in 2024, with the three hyperscalers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud — together capturing roughly seven out of every ten dollars spent on cloud infrastructure, as enterprises pour capital into AI-optimized...