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    AWS Outage Highlights Cloud Concentration and Federated Resilience

    Monday’s Amazon Web Services outage — a region‑level failure in the US‑EAST‑1 cluster that cascaded into a 15‑hour disruption for hundreds of consumer apps, enterprise services and even parts of Amazon itself — was not an isolated prank of distributed systems; it was a public demonstration of...
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    AWS US East 1 Outage: Building Resilient Cloud Architecture

    Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region suffered a high‑impact outage on October 20, 2025 that knocked hundreds of consumer and enterprise services offline, exposed a brittle set of control‑plane dependencies (notably DNS resolution for Amazon DynamoDB), and renewed urgent debate about how the...
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    Rethinking Payments Resilience After the AWS US East Outage

    Amazon’s cloud hiccup on October 20 exposed a brittle chord beneath the payments world: for nearly a full day, merchant checkout flows, fintech apps and critical financial services stumbled when a failure in AWS’s largest Northern Virginia region cut off access to core services that many...
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    AWS US East 1 DNS Outage Disrupts Apps Across Services

    Amazon Web Services suffered a broad regional outage early on October 20 that knocked dozens of widely used apps and platforms offline — from team collaboration tools and video calls to social apps, bank services and smart-home devices — with early evidence pointing to DNS-resolution problems...
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    AWS US East Outage Hits Fortnite and More: Lessons for Cloud Dependent Gaming

    In the early hours of Monday, October 20, 2025, a widespread outage in Amazon Web Services’ US‑EAST‑1 region cascaded through the internet, knocking high‑profile games and platforms offline and exposing how fragile modern gaming ecosystems can be when a single cloud region hiccups. The...
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    Cloud Licensing Battle: Azure Advantage, EU Regulators, and Portability

    Google’s decision to keep the pressure on Microsoft over cloud licensing turned into a public reminder this week that the fight over how Windows and SQL Server licenses move into the cloud is far from settled—and that regulators, competitors and customers are still picking through the...
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    Orange County Seeks Info on Migrating Off Azure in a Cloud Exit RFI

    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...
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    Canada's Cloud Dilemma: Mission-Critical U.S. Cloud vs. Sovereign Cloud

    Ottawa’s recent disclosure that the federal government has spent nearly $1.3 billion on cloud services from U.S. providers since 2021 — with more than a billion of that directed to Microsoft and portions of that budget underpinning what the Department of National Defence calls “mission‑critical”...
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    Google Cloud Outage Shakes the Digital World: Lessons in Resilience and Risk

    A hush fell over the global digital landscape as a significant outage swept through Google Cloud, sending shockwaves far beyond the corridors of the tech giant itself. On Thursday, hundreds of high-profile internet services experienced turbulence as Google’s cloud infrastructure—a backbone...
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