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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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