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Lack of regulatory action on hyperscaler dominance prompts inquiry chair to quit

Despite finding last year that Microsoft and Amazon Web Services are dominating the market for cloud services in the UK, the regulator has taken no action.

AWS Middle East outage: a reminder not to rely on cloud as disaster recovery plan

Companies are advised to carefully examine their DR plans and SLAs so they're not caught off-guard by major events like this.

OpenAI launches stateful AI on AWS, signaling a control plane power shift

While reaffirming its Microsoft partnership, the company is building a Bedrock-native orchestration layer that positions it firmly in multi-cloud territory.

What hyperscalers’ hyper-spending on data centers tells us

Capital expenditure and not new features could now become the clearest signal of cloud resilience, analysts say.

Case Study: Building Connectivity on Azure Stack

Amazon confirms 16,000 job cuts, including to AWS

AWS staff learned of the cuts early when an internal meeting invitation was posted in error.

Amazon layoffs expected to disproportionately hit AWS and tech talent

Analysts and AWS watchers agree that the roughly 15,000 cuts are caused by ‘culture’, but there is disagreement about what that actually means.