Cloud - The Stack (Page 7)

Is unlimited cloud storage quietly getting the chop? Blame miners and even resellers...

This is why we can't have nice things

Azania Imtiaz Patel August 29, 2023

Multi-cloud regulations might be in the pipeline, but why wait?

Former divisional CTO at Worldpay and now Field CTO, EMEA, Yugabyte, David Walker, has some practical thoughts on avoiding the pain of cloud lock-in...

David Walker August 03, 2023

AWS to charge for dwindling supply of IPv4 addresses

AWS

EC2

News

AWS to charge for dwindling supply of IPv4 addresses

AWS says that starting February 2024 it will be charging customers to run public IPv4 addresses in an effort to encourage IPv6 migration

Shaun Nichols July 31, 2023

Citi CTO spearheads new pan-industry ‘Common Cloud Controls’ project at FINOS

Citi, Goldman, Morgan Stanley, LSEG, Natwest Group, and RBC are all participating amid concerns at the opacity of public cloud security and resilience tests and controls.

Edward Targett July 31, 2023

Revisiting *that* Google outage: Fire, flooding, (then running out of water) and a “regional Spanner” failure

News

Outages

google cloud

Revisiting that Google outage: Fire, flooding, (then running out of water) and a “regional Spanner” failure

Fire-fighting was not helped by Global Switch’s fire suppression system “running out of water”. The incident also introduced water and soot contamination. Google Cloud’s affected racks had to be taken apart, thoroughly cleaned and reassembled before they could be restarted.

The Stack July 28, 2023

Amdocs’ Anthony Goonetilleke on network slicing, apples, eSIM -- and the digital divide

Big Interview

CTO

Interviews

Amdocs’ Anthony Goonetilleke on network slicing, apples, eSIM -- and the digital divide

"During Covid I saw two kids, sitting almost on the footpath outside Starbucks in Dallas, and they were doing their homework on its Wi-Fi. It broke my heart. Not creating a digital divide is super important..."

Azania Imtiaz Patel July 25, 2023

finops

Bank of England

Bank of England seeks FinOps help with cloud consumption

Central bank keen to "improve consumption-based spend and reporting and to be able to "make strategic TCO decisions on location of workloads..."

Edward Targett July 25, 2023

Amazon to UK regulator: “AWS does not charge ‘egress fees’”

Amazon to UK regulator: “AWS does not charge ‘egress fees’”

You say "potato", I say sending data across a proprietary global network kept with an intentionally low network utilisation rate is not an act of charity...

Edward Targett July 10, 2023

Is unlimited cloud storage quietly getting the chop? Blame miners and even resellers...

Multi-cloud regulations might be in the pipeline, but why wait?

AWS to charge for dwindling supply of IPv4 addresses

Citi CTO spearheads new pan-industry ‘Common Cloud Controls’ project at FINOS

Revisiting *that* Google outage: Fire, flooding, (then running out of water) and a “regional Spanner” failure

Amdocs’ Anthony Goonetilleke on network slicing, apples, eSIM -- and the digital divide

Bank of England seeks FinOps help with cloud consumption

Amazon to UK regulator: “AWS does not charge ‘egress fees’”

Revisiting that Google outage: Fire, flooding, (then running out of water) and a “regional Spanner” failure