AWS Interconnect multicloud eliminates per-gigabyte transfer fees between AWS and Google Cloud VPCs in favor of flat bandwidth pricing. Azure and Oracle are next. The launch removes the cloud-to-cloud brokerage role that drove Megaport and Equinix Fabric growth.
The European Commission confirmed attackers accessed its AWS-hosted Europa.eu infrastructure and took data. AWS says its platform was not the issue, the customer account configuration was.
A major outage hit Amazon Web Services in the United Arab Emirates after “objects” struck a data centre building, causing sparks and a fire. Local emergency crews cut power to the facility as they worked to put out the fire. What started as a problem in one Availability Zone later spread into a wider regional failure, with two zones impaired and the company warning recovery would take at least a day.
OVHcloud is just launching its first two Local Zones in Europe. However, plans go further and by 2026 they want to have as many as 150 Local Zones of their own. We check it out and compare it to the competitor.