Cloud

Cloud & Infra 6 min Monday's Outlook Failure Was an Authentication Outage Wearing an Email Costume Outlook failed for hours on Monday and Microsoft blamed authentication components. The symptom list mixes mail... KE Kenji Tanaka 1 Sep Cloud & Infra 6 min India Announced Rs26.75 Lakh Crore and Spent Rs7.7 Lakh Crore One figure is announcements and the other is money spent, and they are being quoted in the same breath. The co... KE Kenji Tanaka 31 Aug Finance 7 min Nvidia Paused Its Cloud Financing Programme in Under Two Months The scheme lent credit support to AI clouds and took a share of the revenue their Nvidia capacity earned. It s... SA Sarah Chew 29 Aug Cloud & Infra 5 min A 200 Is Not a Success With the database stopped the homepage still returned 200, at a fifth of its normal text with none of its arti... KE Kenji Tanaka 22 Aug Cloud & Infra 6 min What Your Health Check Does Not Check Four dependencies stopped one at a time on a running stack. Two of the outages left the health check, the stat... KE Kenji Tanaka 22 Aug Cloud & Infra 6 min What a Database Backup Does Not Contain The media on one real system is larger than the dump that is supposed to protect it — 66 MB across 2,765 files... KE Kenji Tanaka 22 Aug Cloud & Infra 7 min How to Prove Your Backup Actually Restores A real 156-table database dumped, loaded into a throwaway server and compared. The backup was fine. The check... KE Kenji Tanaka 22 Aug Cloud & Infra 5 min What One Server Actually Runs This publication — the live site, a full staging copy, an error tracker and its own CI runner — is four cores... KE Kenji Tanaka 21 Aug Cloud & Infra 4 min How Much of the Internet the Big Clouds Hold Add up Amazon's published address file and you get 188 million. The real figure is 101,829,252, because the sa... KE Kenji Tanaka 21 Aug Cloud & Infra 5 min How Far Away the Cloud Is From Singapore A dropdown asks which region, and most people pick the familiar name. Measured from a server in Singapore, the... KE Kenji Tanaka 21 Aug Cloud & Infra 6 min Your VPS Bill Is Going Up Because of Somebody Else's AI OVHcloud will raise server prices by up to 87 per cent. The RAM it buys has risen sixfold in a year and is hea... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 11 Aug Business 7 min Microsoft Is Switching Off Teams Live Chat. Small Businesses Get Eight Weeks. The feature launched in March 2025 and dies on 5 October. It was available only on the Business plans, so the... EV Eva Chin 11 Aug AI & ML 8 min Machine Traffic Passed Human Traffic in May. Cloudflare Had Expected 2027. Daily AI agent requests rose 1,700 per cent year on year. The crossover is a measurement; the thousand-to-one... MA Maya Lin 11 Aug AI & ML 8 min AMD Bought a Company That Etches the Model Into the Chip Taalas builds silicon with the model weights burned in at manufacture. The performance case is strong and the... AI AI Tools Desk 11 Aug Cybersecurity 8 min Four VMware Flaws, and the One That Scores Lowest Is the One Hosting Providers Should Fix First Two flaws score 9.8. The 9.3 lets an attacker with admin rights inside a virtual machine execute code on the h... CY Cyber Team 7 Aug Cloud & Infra 4 min AWS Split SES Into Three Plans — and the Dearer Ones Cost More Per Email at Every Volume Amazon SES now has Essentials, Pro and Enterprise tiers. Pro carries a US$105 monthly fee and a higher per-ema... KE Kenji Tanaka 26 Jul Cloud & Infra 8 min Wafr's $100M Cooling Raise Is Small — the AI Data-Centre Water Problem It Targets Is Not Vancouver startup Wafr Technologies has raised $100 million from undisclosed private investors — toward a $300... KE Kenji Tanaka 9 Jul Cloud & Infra 7 min Meta Compute: Meta Is Reportedly Exploring a Cloud Business for Excess AI Capacity Bloomberg reports that Meta is building a cloud business, internally called Meta Compute, to sell access to ex... KE Kenji Tanaka 6 Jul Cloud & Infra 8 min The Cloud Market Just Crossed a Half-Trillion-Dollar Run Rate — and AI Is Why It's Still Accelerating Global cloud-infrastructure spending hit US$129 billion in Q1 2026 and is growing 35% a year — the ninth strai... KE Kenji Tanaka 17 Jun Cloud & Infra 8 min Forrester Says 2026 Will Bring Two Major Multi-Day Cloud Outages — Here's the Resilience Math Behind the Warning Forrester predicts at least two major multi-day hyperscaler outages in 2026, arguing that the rush to build AI... KE Kenji Tanaka 17 Jun