os platforms 2026 just became the year of FreeBSD on the (Amazonian cloud) desktop Desktop AMIs ‘designed to behave as much like Windows as possible’ now available as an on ramp for new users
virtualization Gartner predicts 55% of enterprise VMware users will be investigating an exit by 2029 Chasing pack has its problems too, with maturity, cost, and complex licenses
ai and ml AWS bolts together open source agent harness, says it sips fewer tokens than rivals Strands claims near-parity with Claude Code and Codex on benchmarks, though it only raced coding agents and marked its own homework
columnists Your cloud survived everything except the real world War damage, air traffic chaos, and a storage shortage expose the cost of treating resilience as someone else's problem
off-prem AWS confesses its console causes cloudy confusion for new users Improved signup experience for ‘AI builders’ hides complexity and includes spending cap
off-prem AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good Iranian strikes overwhelmed regional redundancy in Bahrain and left one UAE Availability Zone inaccessible
ai and ml Your AI agents' reports and questions have a new inbox, courtesy of AWS Pizza Bot runs locally and lets users interact with AI agents in an email-like interface. Perfect for blowing them off just like your human colleagues!
off-prem Amazon ropes Qualcomm into something, something AI, networking chips Multi-generation chip collab is more buzzwords than compute
off-prem Microsoft and AWS build the multicloud bridge they said customers barely needed New services promise private 100 Gbps links between the rival platforms without months of networking faff
databases AWS: DuckDB will provide 'connective tissue' across the data estate Dutch in-process OLAP systems set to be the 'SDK for data' as developers scale systems, cloud giant claims after DuckLab acquisition
networks A lot of datacenter networks are run by absolute clowns. Not Amazon's AWS keeps customer costs down in part through networking advances
offbeat AWS Route 53 DNS service reimagined...as a file system? Cloud industry pros have a bit of fun at Amazon's expense
security Industry that built the problem offers to sell you the solution 100+ tech giants warn AI attacks are coming, skip the part where they pay for defenses
devops How Cursor beat Git's scalability shortcomings S3 keeps the source of truth while local NVMe repositories do the latency-sensitive work
off-prem Ryanair adds Google to its dual-cloud flight plan Gemini gets to juggle crews, forecasts, and maintenance while AWS keeps its seat
systems Big Cloud is poised to corner the market for enterprise hardware AI gave hyperscalers first dibs on scarce kit, and business buyers may have little choice but to rent it back
off-prem Cloud giants pour nearly $600B into capex as AI demand surges Revenue is soaring, yet hyperscalers say they still cannot build capacity fast enough
ai and ml The AI bubble is already popping; we just don't know it yet Weird times in earnings-land, and we're talking about it on The Reg's home grown podcast
off-prem Enterprise cloud infrastructure uptake shows no sign of slowing Cloud revenue now north of $143 billion a quarter, and growth is accelerating
paas and iaas Amazon's Q2 was great, but the earnings release is packed with baloney "Tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies"
cyber-crime Amazon links four poisoned npm packages to one North Korean crew Researchers say Sapphire Sleet socially engineered maintainers before publishing malicious updates through trusted accounts
ai and ml Amazon's AGI department finds humans are optional AI remains its biggest bet, Bezos brigade tells El Reg, even as another round of layoffs reaches the teams building it
off-prem Iran says it's struck offline AWS facility in Bahrain ... again AWS' me-south-1 region has been offline for months, so more like beating a dead cloud
off-prem AWS customer learns the hard way how even the smallest oversight can be mission-critical An expired card, overzealous spam filter, and broken authenticator create havoc with a very clear moral
columnists Airbus takes flight from AWS. What happens next is critical Which way to the Land of the Free again?
off-prem Billing software error sends billion-dollar AWS estimates Amazon asks users not to panic as it works to fix the bug
paas and iaas Europe's chip ambitions won't break dependence on US cloud and software, says Forrester Brussels may spend billions on semiconductor fabs, but tech sovereignty remains firmly in American and Chinese hands
paas and iaas Airbus migrating 70 critical apps from AWS to France's Scaleway amid digital sovereignty push Total of 900 applications including ERP, CRM, and manufacturing systems going to be kept 'under European control'
off-prem AWS CloudFront outage serves errors instead of websites Storm sends winds whipping beyond cloud giant, knocking out services including Hugging Face and the UK's National Lottery
paas and iaas Amazon Web Services' most vocal customer now runs EC2 Retail foundation leader Dave Treadwell takes over as senior leader and 19-year vet Dave Brown departs for pastures unknown
on-prem AWS sustainability claims don't hold water, lawsuit alleges Ex-staffer accuses Amazon's Virginia datacenters of quietly guzzling H20 all year round, despite 'water positive' PR push
off-prem Britain's cloud habit has become a billion-pound risk 24-hour outage in key AWS region could leave UK firms nursing massive losses, researchers claim
off-prem Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it Workers who use OG crowdsourcing platform say AWS is closing accounts
ai and ml How the AI bubble could pop and take down the global economy, according to the BIS Central bank for central banks sees shades of dotcom mania in hyperscaler capex binge
paas and iaas Amazon pours another $13B into India's AI and cloud infrastructure Mumbai and Hyderabad datacenter expansion forms part of broader $48B five-year investment pledge
devops AWS debuts Lambda MicroVMs with up to 8 hours runtime Suitable for running untrusted code, AI agents, or any long-running task
security Why Amazon hates 'human-in-the-loop' AI governance VP Eric Brandwine explains people aren't all that great, actually
devops Vercel debuts eve open source agent framework, tries to fix shadow AI with Passport Cost premium of using AWS indirectly via Vercel is mitigated by more efficient use of compute resources, CTO claims
columnists Committed skeptic finds himself warming to new Amazon AI products that actually don't suck Ed's note to Corey: Blink once if you're safe, twice if you're in danger
devops AWS hypes continuous agentic DevOps, puts Kiro in your pocket Trust is the biggest barrier to AI adoption, says AI chief, claiming that new features in Bedrock AgentCore will prevent bad outcomes
networks AWS rolls the dice for faster, more efficient networking Honey, I flattened the datacenter network
on-prem Amazon owns up to using 2.5bn gallons of H2O in its bit barns last year The West's biggest online shopping mall comes clean about its datacenter water usage
paas and iaas Graviton 5 impresses, but please, for the love of all that's holy, stop calling them 'AI chips' AWS better at running chip fabs than their mouths
databases Microsoft allows BYOL for Amazon RDS. Repeat, Microsoft allows BYOL for Amazon RDS SQL Server licenses can now be consumed in the rival cloud's DBaaS
columnists AWS reportedly to tuck Elon Musk's Grok into Bedrock, despite zero enterprise demand The energy drink of frontier models
Okta writes its own license to kill rogue AI agents CEO Todd McKinnon says customers including ServiceNow want an off switch
Snowflake to burn $6B on AWS Graviton CPUs and AI accelerators Dataware house gambles cloud conveniences, AI accelerated insights will justify the cost.
databases AWS whips out Graviton-powered Redshift instances, claims 7x speed for data warehouse AI agents asking questions in natural language apparently issue a lot more queries than your average SQL jockey
paas and iaas AWS parades orgs that took up its offer for Euro Sovereign Cloud Customers want their data kept and processed strictly within the EU
databases PostgreSQL backup tool gets some backup of its own after sole maintainer sounds alarm AWS, Percona, Supabase, pgEdge, and Tiger Data rally round pgBackRest with funding pledge
ai + ml Surprise AI bills leave AWS and Google Cloud users aghast Stuck with an AI bill for tens of thousands of dollars? You're not alone by a long shot
off-prem AWS racks M3 Ultra Macs that boast specs you can’t currently buy Manages to get its hands on some Mac Studio machines before the OpenClaw machine grabs them
saas Bedrock and a hard place: Claude adventure leaves AWS user staring down $30K invoice CAD: Cost Anomaly Detection or Create Astounding Debt?
AWS to Quick admins: The access control didn't work, but you weren't using it anyway, so what's the problem? If a setting fails in the forest and nobody hears it ...
off-prem AWS warns of EC2 'impairment' as power loss hits notorious US-EAST-1 region Extra aircon found to cool overheating datacenter as users complain their resources are... nowhere
off_prem AWS lets agents drive its virtual cloudy desktops – which could cost 500,000 tokens per click if used carelessly Vendor benchmark finds APIs let you do the job faster and cheaper
on_prem Inside Amazon Web Services' plan to make networking disappear The Register gets a look inside AWS' networking lab in Cupertino
off_prem AWS says acute server memory shortage is driving customers to the cloud When you can't get 'em with a 'transformation plan,' supply chain pain will do the job
software Amazon chips no longer just a side dish, they're a $20B biz The Trainium train keeps a-rollin'
on_prem Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q1 Iran went dark twice, AWS got droned, oh and TalkTalk broke something it refuses to talk about
software AWS keynote hypes AI as magic. Its own engineers tell a different story No shortcuts, human-review everything, says internal team - and keep hiring junior developers
software OpenAI jumps out of Microsoft's bed, into Amazon's Bedrock Altman's gaggle of GPTs now available in limited preview in an AWS region near you
software Amazon unveils a Copilot for all your apps Retailer touts 'teammates' and always-on context as it muscles into an already crowded enterprise market
on_prem Meta Arms itself to the teeth by signing for 'tens of millions' of AWS Graviton cores After flubbing the Metaverse, Zuck embraces the Neoverse
off_prem Amazon would rather shareholders did not look too closely at carbon footprint Investors urged to reject proposal for more disclosure on whether AWS expansion risks climate goals
on_prem AWS ponders selling its home-grown chips by the rack-load, has almost sold out AI capacity Annual CEO letter reveals two customers want all Graviton servers, huge drone rollout, a million robots, and more megalomania
on_prem World's smallest violin spotted at Amazon HQ as exec pay packets deflate C-suite forced to take sandwiches into work, cycle home
software AWS: Agents shouldn't be secret, so we built a registry for them Your agent will be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numbered
on_prem Amazon put a filesystem on S3; I showed up with a test suite and bad intentions The core product is solid and priced fairly
software AWS CEO: It's funny when people ask me if AI is overhyped Matt Garman sounds the alarm but plays down the SaaS-pocalypse at Human[X]
off_prem UK watchdog targets Microsoft licensing in cloud competition probe CMA to assess whether the company's terms unfairly favor Azure over rival platforms
off_prem AWS would prefer to forget March ever happened in its UAE region Cloud giant waives an entire month of charges, then erases the billing data. There is literally nothing to see here.
software OpenAI now gets to decide which type of product assassin it will become AWS, Google, Broadcom, or Netscape?
on_prem HMRC hands £473M Fujitsu migration deal to AWS after competition melts away Insiders say single-bidder process left little room for negotiation
security Russians are posing as Signal support to launch phishing attacks PLUS: US takes down Iranian propaganda sites; Marketing company asks 'Why Do We Have Your Information?' And more!
off_prem Europe's cloud minnows tell Brussels to stop big tech 'sovereignty-washing' 24 execs sign open letter demanding control-based definitions and reserved procurement
off_prem AWS giveth with its right hand and breaketh with its left Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by one very large org chart
off_prem AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches ‘hundreds of exabytes’ Cloudy storage service's scale gave it a hefty cultural footprint
software Amazon insists AI coding isn't source of outages E-souk disputes report linking 'Gen-AI assisted changes' to recent high-impact incidents
security EV charger biz ELECQ zapped by ransomware crooks, customer contact data stolen An attack on the company’s AWS platform may have exposed customers' names and home addresses
off_prem Iranian news service claims drone strikes on AWS were deliberate, to probe for US datacenter dependencies Remember: Truth is the first casualty of war
off_prem AWS-hosted tech providers urge Middle East customers to fail over now Snowflake, Red Hat, and others warn customers not to wait around for the cloud to recover
off_prem Cloud inquiry chair quits UK competition watchdog over glacial pace of reform Kip Meeks walked a year early with the overseer of tech markets yet to take action against AWS and Microsoft
software AWS backs Open VSX as Rust survey shows VS Code decline AI-first editors and agent-driven tooling intensify competition in the IDE market
off_prem AWS says drones hit two of its datacenters in UAE, urges users to move resources to different regions Multiple zones Middle East in UAE disrupted, with water damage complicating recovery
off_prem AWS Middle East disrupted after ‘objects struck datacenter’ amid Iran war PLUS: AI claims 2,000 jobs at Australia’s WiseTech; Samsung wants humanoid robots for autonomous factories; Micron opens India plant; And more!
security AWS says more than 600 FortiGate firewalls hit in AI-augmented campaign Off-the-shelf tools helped Russian-speaking cybercrime group run riot
off_prem Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play Attempt to go 'Made in EU' offers big tech escapees a reality check where lower cloud bills come with higher effort
on_prem Amazon's $200 billion capex plan: How I learned to stop worrying and love negative free cash flow It isn't insane, and Amazon will be fine when the music stops. Other players, maybe not so much
security A simple CodeBuild flaw put every AWS environment at risk – and pwned 'the central nervous system of the cloud'
software Jassy taps 27-year Amazon veteran to run AGI org, which is now definitely a thing that exists
off_prem AWS builds a DNS backstop to allow changes when its notoriously flaky US East region wobbles
offbeat Amazon-backed X-energy sweet talks investors into another $700M for small modular reactor dream
off_prem Amazon Web Services’ US-EAST-1 region in trouble again, with EC2 and container services impacted
off_prem Signal president Meredith Whittaker says they had no choice but to use AWS, and that's a problem
software Dropping Nvidia for Amazon's custom chips helped gene therapy startup Metagenomi cut AI bill 56%
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