multi-cloud

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...

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...

Tokyo-founded NTT DATA’s appointment as the Public Cloud Manager for the Texas Department of Information Resources marks a consequential step in how one of the nation’s largest states will procure, govern and operate public cloud services across multiple hyperscalers. The engagement — announced...

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...

Oracle and Microsoft’s multicloud marriage just took another step into the Middle East: Oracle Database@Azure is now available in the United Arab Emirates, bringing Oracle-managed database services into Azure’s UAE Central (Abu Dhabi) and UAE North (Dubai) regions and giving customers local...

Cloud hosting has evolved from a convenience to a strategic imperative, and the top U.S. providers shaping enterprise IT strategies in 2025 combine scale, specialized services for AI and data, and increasingly sophisticated cost and sustainability commitments. The short list assembled by...

Microsoft’s decision to “cease and disable” a set of Azure cloud and AI subscriptions to an Israeli Ministry of Defense unit after a high‑profile investigation has forced a reckoning about what commercial cloud providers can — and must — do when sovereign customers appear to use powerful tools...

Oracle’s latest quarter didn’t just surprise the market — it rewrote the playbook for what a decades‑old database vendor can become when it aggressively pivots into AI infrastructure and multicloud operations. In Q1 of fiscal 2026 Oracle reported a staggering $455 billion in Remaining...