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Automattic Is Not an Owner of the WordPress Marks It Asserted in Court, a Judge Rules
Natalia Nowak · 29 Sep 2026 · 6 min read
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The September 24 order brings back four antitrust claims the same judge had dismissed in an earlier ruling. It also holds that Automattic and Mullenweg are neither owners nor registrants of the WordPress marks, so they cannot assert them in their own right.
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AWS Cannot Restore Access to Data Kept Only in Bahrain or One UAE Zone
by Natalia Nowak · 17 Sep 2026 · 5 min read
Six months after both regions were damaged, AWS cannot restore access to resources and data hosted exclusively in Bahrain or in one UAE zone. Most customers migrated in time. For the rest, the only copy that counts is the one kept outside the region.
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An AWS Region Has Been Offline for Months, and the Cloud’s Address Is No Longer a Technicality
by Natalia Nowak · 23 Jul 2026 · 5 min read
The war between the US and Iran has kept an entire AWS cloud region offline for months, something ordinary outages never do. Why losing one region can take an unprepared business down, and what real disaster recovery requires.
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UK Financial Regulators Now Oversee AWS, Google, Microsoft and Oracle
by Natalia Nowak · 13 Jul 2026 · 4 min read
The UK's three financial regulators are now overseeing the cloud giants. From July 13, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft and Oracle are designated critical third parties, a recognition that regulated finance runs on a handful of clouds and one outage could ripple across it. It mirrors the EU's DORA.
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The EU Just Aimed Its Gatekeeper Rules at AWS and Azure for the First Time, and It Used AI to Do It
by Natalia Nowak · 26 Jun 2026 · 8 min read
For the first time, the European Commission aimed its Digital Markets Act at cloud, preliminarily designating AWS and Azure as gatekeepers on qualitative grounds and naming AI dependence as the lock-in. Remedies on portability and egress would hand European hosts a switching-cost edge.
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AWS Connected Its Network to Google Cloud With No Egress Fees. Azure and Oracle Are Next.
by Natalia Nowak · 22 May 2026 · 4 min read
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.
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European Commission Confirms AWS Account Breach: A Customer-Side Failure With EU Cloud Sovereignty Implications
by Łukasz Nowak · 30 Mar 2026 · 6 min read
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.
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Fire and power cuts at an AWS data centre in the UAE trigger a long cloud outage
by Kamil Kołosowski · 2 Mar 2026 · 7 min read
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. 
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OVH opens its first two local zones
by Kamil Kołosowski · 8 Feb 2024 · 3 min read
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.
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