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Partial Cloudflare outage on October 25, 2022
Today, a change to our Tiered Cache system caused some requests to fail for users with status code 530. The impact lasted for almost six hours in total. We estimate that about 5% of all requests failed at peak. Because of the complexity of our system and a blind spot...
Jeff Bezos steps down as Amazon boss
In 2004, Jeff Bezos and his technical adviser Colin Bryar drove together to the city of Tacoma, an hour south of Seattle in Washington State. At that time Amazon was a multi-billion dollar company. However they were headed to Amazon's customer services centre - where...
Changes to Google Workspace storage policies timeline
Update [January 13, 2022]: We have extended the previously announced timeframe for the Google Workspace storage policy changes. Beginning May 2, 2022, any newly created Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Drawings, Forms, or Jamboard files will count toward...
Who Is Andy Jassy, Amazon’s New CEO?
Andy Jassy, the Amazon. AMZN +0.41% com Inc. leader who is set to take over as chief executive from founder Jeff Bezos later this year, is a longtime acolyte of his boss who helped come up with the tech giant’s most profitable idea:...
Andy Jassy’s Climb to Amazon CEO Shows the Cloud’s Rising Power
The elevation of Andy Jassy to become Amazon.com Inc.’s next chief executive is one of the clearest signs yet that fortunes in the tech industry are increasingly made in the cloud. Mr. Jassy was instrumental in helping to transform the...
Google is buying a company for half a billion dollars to boost cloud security
Google’s $500 million acquisition of Israel-based startup Siemplify is supposed to help the company bolster its own cloud security initiative, Chronicle, according to a report from Reuters. In a blog post announcing the deal, Google describes...