Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 employees amid an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled cost-cutting drive. On 28 October 2025, Amazon’s senior vice-president of people, experience and technology Beth Galetti confirmed to employees that the e-commerce behemoth plans to axe 14,000 roles from its corporate workforce, something she specified has been prompted and enabled by the firm’s…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the last supplier standing in the controversial £500m race to become the hyperscaler responsible for overseeing a 10-year datacentre exit project for HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), Computer Weekly has learned. As previously reported by Computer Weekly, the government tax collection agency needs a hyperscale provider to manage the migration…
On the day CEO Satya Nadella discussed Microsoft’s “planet-scale cloud and AI factory,” Azure cloud – the IT infrastructure underpinning this – was offline for more than eight hours. According to the company’s latest quarterly results, Microsoft cloud revenue surpassed $49bn, an increase of 26% compared to the same quarter last year. Overall, Microsoft posted revenue…
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The UK government is being pressed for a response as to why a major, multi-hour Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage in the US disrupted UK-based organisations, including HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) and Lloyds Banking Group. The outage, which AWS confirmed started just before 8am UK time on 20 October, originated in AWS’s US-East-1 datacentre region…
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has issued an apology to its customers inconvenienced by its largest US datacentre region suffering a 14-hour outage on 20 October, in a blog detailing the precise nature of the technical difficulties its services suffered. As previously reported by Computer Weekly, the outage originated in the public cloud giant’s US-East-1 datacentre…
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Sales of enterprise software through hyperscale cloud marketplaces hosted by the likes of Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft and Google are expected to top $163bn by 2030, having hit $30bn in 2024. According to research from IT market watcher Omdia, the rise in sales can be attributed to increasing enterprise use of hyperscale cloud procurement…
At its annual Oktane customer conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, identity and access management specialist Okta has been expanding its vision to be a first port of call to securing non-human identities (NHIs) as a swelling wave of artificial intelligence (AI) agents causes their numbers to swell dramatically. Among the announcements made today are new…
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File servers are at the core of almost all IT infrastructures. File sharing is essential to collaboration and is a vital component of growing volumes of unstructured information. File storage is a key part of general document storage, and access to the information therein is vital for analytics, including artificial intelligence (AI). File systems also…
When ASN Bank chief technology officer (CTO) Sebastiaan Kalshoven isn’t driving IT and business change at the Dutch retail bank, he can often be found at the local swimming pool training his daughter and other kids to become competitive athletes. His 10-year-old daughter dreams of winning Olympic gold, so three times a week Kalshoven trains…
Cloud block storage allows organisations to run applications that depend on high throughput and low latency in the cloud. The latest block storage offerings make use of the cloud’s advantages, without sacrificing performance. Such offerings allow customers to run applications in the cloud and use block storage there, such as proof-of-concept projects before they’re rolled…
