Cloud Stories for 2021

Amazon Cloud Unit Draws Antitrust Scrutiny From Khan's FTC 14
China Regulators Suspend Alibaba Cloud Partnership Over Log4Shell Reporting 29
Amazon's AWS Logs Its Third Outage this Month, Affecting Slack, Epic Games Store, Asana and More 66
Is the Cloud Making Internet Services More Fragile? 119
Getting Married In the Metaverse 64
Which Developers Were Paid the Most in 2021? 118
AWS Brings M1 Mac Minis To Its Cloud 25
Amazon Launches Preview of New 'AWS Private 5G' Managed Service 19
'Malicious Actors' are Compromising Google Cloud Accounts, Installing Cryptocurrency Miners 26
Microsoft Builds New Green Data Centers in Wyoming, Invests in Wifi, Education, Roads 43
AWS Embraces Fedora Linux for Its Cloud-Based 'Amazon Linux' 71
Xbox Game Pass Cloud Gaming Arrives On Consoles 14
NVIDIA's Cloud Gaming Service Quietly Capped Frame Rates on 12 Games 24
Is Modern Software Development Too Complex? 273
Google Cloud Goes Deep Into Financial Services With $1 Billion CME Deal 12
Sega, Microsoft Announce Strategic Alliance To Develop 'Super Game' Initiative On Azure 20
Should the US Fund a 'National Cloud' for AI Research to Compete With China? 48
$28B Startup Says Companies Were Refusing Their Free Open-Source Code as 'Not Enterprise-Ready' 49
Security Threat Analyst Accuses Microsoft of Hosting Malware on Office365's OneDrive 52
Cisco Wants To Climb Back the Way Microsoft Did 61
Google Cloud Will Now Show Its Users Their Carbon Footprint In the Cloud 41
Is It Time to Stop Paying For a VPN? 113
Xbox's Cloud Streaming Upgrade Means You Might Not Need A Series X 16
Millions Experience Browser Problems After Long-Anticipated Expiration of 'Let's Encrypt' Certificate 94
Alliance Including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and IBM Vows to Protect Rights and Privacy With 'Trusted Cloud Principles' 33
iOS 15 Messages Bug Causes Saved Photos to Be Deleted 37
Amazon To Remove More Content That Violates Rules From Cloud Service 187
Samsung Phone Owners Warned: Save Your Photos Now 58
Man Steals 620K Photos From iCloud Accounts Without Apple Noticing 74
Apple's Anti-Fraud Chief Said Company Was 'The Greatest Platform For Distributing Child Porn' 74
Will Google's Tensor Chip Spell Trouble for 5G? 140
What Happens When Big Tech's Datacenters Come to Small Towns? 76
Amazon Awarded Secret $10 Billion NSA Cloud Computing Contract 65
ElasticSearch Keeps Fighting Open Source Fork by Amazon AWS 161
PSA: Apple Can't Run CSAM Checks On Devices With iCloud Photos Turned Off 62
New Google Nest Cams Can Record Video Without a Monthly Subscription 11
The Case for Another Antitrust Action Against Microsoft 209
Google Cloud Offers a Model For Fixing Google's Product-Killing Reputation 49
Does the Open Source Movement Need to Evolve? 72
Drones Are Zapping Clouds With Electricity To Create Rain In UAE Project 45
Amazon's Elasticsearch Fork 'OpenSearch' Reaches General Availability 1.0 Milestone 49
Microsoft Puts PCs in the Cloud With Windows 365 190
Pentagon Cancels $10 Billion JEDI Cloud Contract 80
Apple's Spending on Google Cloud Storage On Track to Soar 50% This Year 44
Xbox Cloud Gaming On iOS Arrives On Game Pass Ultimate For All 12
Will Data Centers Exacerbate Our Droughts? 86
Cryptocurrency Miners Force Changes to Free Tiers at Docker 43
Man Pleads Guilty to Plotting to Bomb Amazon Data Center 163
Apple Announces iCloud+ With Privacy-focused Features 37
How Reliable Are Modern CPUs? 64
Coalition Including Microsoft, Linux Foundation, GitHub Urge Green Software Development 136
Cryptocurrency Miners Are Now Abusing the Free Tiers of Cloud Platforms 75
Huawei's Cloud Services Find Government Buyers 11
SpaceX Partners With Google Cloud On Starlink, Placing Ground Stations At Data Centers 19
DigitalOcean Says Customer Billing Data Accessed In Data Breach 9
Network Security Company Proofprint Goes Private In $12.3 Billion Deal 7
Dish To Use AWS For 5G Network 20
Inspur, China's Largest Cloud Hardware Vendor, Joins Open-Source Patent Consortium 7
Would You Tell an Angel Investor How to Start a New Country? 59
US Arrests Suspect Who Wanted To Blow Up AWS Data Center 151
IBM Creates a COBOL Compiler For Linux On x86 188
GitHub is Investigating Crypto-mining Campaign Abusing Its Server Infrastructure 27
Amazon Hires Former Executive Adam Selipsky To Run AWS 18
Box Explores Sale Amid Pressure from Starboard 34
Stadia Lets You Play People's Screenshots 49
Ask Slashdot: What Do You Use for Backups at Home? 283
iCloud Allegedly Locked Out User Whose Last Name is a Boolean Value 208
Microsoft's $10 Billion Pentagon Deal at Risk Amid Amazon Fight 58
IBM, Palantir Forge Partnership In Low-Code AI Data Processing Space 14
Google Will Delete Users' Play Music Library Later This Month 63
Google Cloud Lost $5.61 Billion On $13.06 Billion Revenue Last Year 24
Google Snags Ford Cloud Partnership in Coup Over Microsoft 42
Despite SolarWinds Cyberattack, Microsoft's Azure Business Predicted to Benefit 13
Why AWS Is Forking Elasticsearch and Kibana 47
Parler Sues Amazon For Site Takedown, Alleges Antitrust Violations 339
Attackers May Still Be Breaking into US Networks Without SolarWinds, CISA says 38
Parler Booted Off Amazon's AWS Hosting Service, Suspended by Apple 628
Farming Equipment is Beaming Back 'Reams of Data' To its Manufacturers 57
An Interview With an Anonymous Amazonian 201