#cloud-infrastructure

#cloud-infrastructure

Microsoft commits to privacy safeguards amid US-Europe geopolitical tensions.

The company vows to defend European customers' data against US government actions if necessary.

Europe's cloud infrastructure is dominated by US companies, but alternatives are emerging for data sovereignty.

Canva's November 2024 outage was due to multiple factors including API Gateway failure and CDN routing issues, not software bugs.

Latency in multi-cloud communication is more affected by geographical distance than by cloud provider differences.

Criminals targeted 20,000 users in Europe through a cloud-focused phishing campaign.

Data theft via compromised credentials is increasingly common in cloud infrastructure attacks.

Ampere CPUs provide comparable or superior throughput to incumbents, emphasizing the importance of real-world workload testing over synthetic benchmarks.

Nokia extends its contract with Microsoft for five years to supply routers and switches for Azure datacentres, enhancing connectivity and scalability.

Nebius, formerly Yandex, aims to become a top player in Europe's GPU-as-a-service market amid its shift back to public trading.

The cluster upgrade led to excessive docker image pulls, causing high disk utilization and pod startup failures.

System Initiative offers a solution to the challenges of cloud infrastructure management, aiming to eliminate issues arising from static configurations.

OCI GenAI Agents enhance AI integration for businesses with retrieval-augmented generation capabilities, streamlining operations and improving access to innovations.

Processing massive volumes of real-time data is crucial for competitive advantage, but building reliable data platforms poses significant challenges.