The cloud computing industry saw significant news in March 2021, including a major fire at OVHcloud's Strasbourg data center that damaged two out of four data centers and caused website and email outages for clients. Chinese hackers exploited a loophole in Microsoft Exchange, affecting over 30,000 companies running their own copy of the software. Cloud identity startup Auth0 was acquired by Okta for $6.5 billion. DigitalOcean raised $775 million in an IPO and went public on the NYSE. AWS expanded its presence in Japan with a new region and launched a cost-cutting storage class called One Zone. The FinOps Foundation released a report highlighting the challenges of controlling cloud costs, while Flexera's 2021 State of the Cloud Report showed businesses are increasing their spending on cloud services and starting to use automation for cost control. CAST AI also announced the launch of its Command Line Interface (CLI) and a status page for users, as well as an EKS optimization tool in development.