multi-cloud

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...

A widespread outage that knocked large swathes of Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform and Microsoft 365 productivity services offline on October 29, 2025 began to ease after several hours of global disruption, but the incident exposed persistent fragility in cloud-dependent business operations and...

Simpson Associates’ announcement that it has taken a strategic investment from Beech Tree Private Equity marks a clear inflection point for a UK‑based Microsoft‑aligned data transformation firm — one that gains scale and capital while raising familiar questions about governance, productisation...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Mohammed Bin Rashid Housing Establishment’s decision to run its core databases on Oracle Database@Azure marks a practical, high‑profile example of Dubai’s push to pair sovereign-grade services with cloud‑native AI and analytics — a move that promises better performance for planning, project and...

Oracle’s multicloud strategy moved from incremental rollout to visible scale this month as Big Red extended Oracle Database@Google Cloud into new Google regions while continuing a rapid global expansion of Oracle Database@Azure — and, crucially, shipped multiple AI‑centric database services that...

Oracle and Microsoft have moved from guarded cooperation to an operational partnership that promises to speed decision-making across complex logistics networks by placing Oracle‑managed database services inside Azure datacenters and wiring those data planes into Azure’s AI, analytics, and...

A high‑stakes, potentially precedent‑setting legal push against Microsoft over its cloud licensing policies is gathering momentum in the UK: competition lawyer Dr Maria Luisa Stasi is pressing a proposed collective claim worth roughly £2 billion that alleges thousands of UK organisations were...

Dayforce’s move to embed Microsoft’s Copilot tooling and the Model Context Protocol (MCP) into its single‑platform Human Capital Management (HCM) system marks a decisive inflection point for how HR, payroll, and operations teams will use agent-driven automation — promising tighter Microsoft...