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PAAS AND IAAS

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Bedrock and a hard place: Claude adventure leaves AWS user staring down $30K invoice

CAD: Cost Anomaly Detection or Create Astounding Debt?

'Goodbye' in several languages on a wall at Hong Kong airport

Salesforce puts Heroku out to PaaSture

Still supported with no death date set, but no new features planned

Wireframe crab

Clouds rush to deliver OpenClaw-as-a-service offerings

As analyst house Gartner declares AI tool ‘comes with unacceptable cybersecurity risk’ and urges admins to snuff it out

Workers fix data tangle

Atlassian ran a tabletop DR simulation that revealed it lived in dependency hell

Four-year effort replaced spaghetti tangle with more robust and recoverable cloudy layer cake

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Illustration of a data lake with numbers superimposed over a lake

Edge processing revolution: Rethinking AI data infrastructures

F5 iRules, programmability delivering speed, consistency, and TCO benefits

Oracle yet to sign a Stargate contract or predict revenue from AI mega-build

Guessed tax obligations wrong which helped to disappoint Wall Street even as sales boomed

Even Netflix struggles to identify and understand the cost of its AWS estate

If you have trouble keeping track of your various streaming subscriptions, you're gonna love the irony

Microsoft vs Google

Google offered millions to ally itself with trade body fighting Microsoft

El Reg has seen the presentation to CISPE members which sources say was intended to keep the lawsuit over licensing alive

Equinix

Equinix to close its 'Metal' IaaS offering in 2026

Joins the likes of HPE, Cisco, and VMware in failing to challenge dominant hyperscalers

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Admins wonder if the cloud was such a good idea after all

As AWS, Microsoft, and Google hike some prices, it's time to open up the ROI calculator

Alibaba Cloud

Alibaba Cloud boosts failure prediction with logfile timestamps

Machine learning helps, but more data catches more faults - so Chinese champ has shared its data

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Microsoft's CISPE settlement includes a suspension of audits for members

Cloud group companies free of Redmond's compliance cops for 2 years in return for ditching EC antitrust complaint

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Amit Zavery, Google Cloud

Google: We're still working to defeat Microsoft's 'anticompetitive' cloud policy

Yesterday's settlement between MS and Euro cloud providers shouldn't 'fool' you, says Alphabet arm's cloud boss

IBM packages its Power cloud into 'pods' that run on-prem

Zero bucks to start but then the meter runs on everything – for years

POint of sale

Fancy building a replacement for Post Office's disastrous Horizon system?

£75 million in the offing in government tender

Cloud server host Vultr rips user data licensing clause from ToS amid web 'confusion'

We know the average customer doesn't have a law degree, CEO tells us

arguing in a meeting

European cloud providers locked in talks with Microsoft over licensing complaint

Redmond has until end of this quarter to make 'substantive progress'

amazon

AWS rakes in half a billion pounds from UK Home Office

Someone has to top up the Bezos rocket fund, like British taxpayers

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Want a well-paid job in tech? You just need to become a cloud-native god

At KubeCon, the need to bridge the skills gap was clearer than ever

Andy Jassy during AWS reinvent 2020 keynote

AWS CEO talks up AI to focus minds of Wall Street types

Q3 sales below forecasts, profits up, and conversation centers on LLMs and GenAI

Broken cloud

Imagine a world without egress fees or cloud software license disparities

UK regulator lists series of potential remedies for anti-competitive practices early on in probe

man holds magnifying glass

Obscured by clouds: Time for IaaS vendors to come clean and play fair

All that stuff about resilience, choice, and control? Yeah, we'll take them now please

Alibaba parachute

Alibaba Cloud to bring its AI PaaS out from behind the Great Firewall

Meanwhile its parent begins to break up, with float of logistics arm

Busy freeway filled with cars bumper to bumper

How TCP's congestion control saved the internet

We guess it's OK it did

cloud

37 Signals says cloud repatriation plan has already saved it $1 million

CTO David Heinemeier Hansson reckons he’s on track to hit $10 million over five years

Someone paying for a coffee in a cafe using a Square terminal

Square blames last week's outage on DNS screw-up

It's not hip to be this Square

Exit sign with clouds

Alibaba CEO, chair and head of breakway cloud biz quits suddenly ahead of IPO

Daniel Zhang does different handover to the one expected

The end

AWS shuts down its first-gen compute and network infrastructure

The legacy lives on even though EC2-Classic and its flat network are no more

Cisco

Beware of geeks bearing gifts, so check the fine print on Cisco's latest financing deal

Buy now, even services or second-hand kit, and pay in 2024 … if you feel lucky

Someone in an office looking irritated by invoices and bills

Bill shock? The red ink of web services doesn’t come out of the blue

To avoid cloudy judgement, heed the weather forecast

ellison

Oracle clouds never go down, says Oracle's Larry Ellison

That summer heatwave in Britain? Our servers were just resting

Composition of three illustrations of Intel Sapphire Rapids dies

Intel reveals pay-to-play Xeon features with software-defined silicon

Pay for features like SGX through OEMs

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A Microsoft cloud... sorta

Euro clouds lodge another complaint against Microsoft over anti-competitive licenses

CISPE says Redmond's recent concessions did not level the playing field

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Economic headwinds be damned, cloud migrations 'not stopping'

Don't listen to the claims of slowing growth – Gartner has the lowdown

People visit Lenovo, a Chinese multinational technology company booth during CEE 2017, the largest electronics trade show of Ukraine

Lenovo thinks customers simply love IT-as-a-service

Anyone that agrees has been 'smoking dope' says one of world's largest resellers

Google's Alphabet to review every project after $6bn decline in profits

Headcount swelled by almost 37,000 in a year, now investors want CEO Pichai to show them the money

Final notice street sign with cloud

Heroku to delete inactive accounts, shut down free tier

Move over, GitLab, this purge begins in October

Rusty chain

Digital Ocean customers back away from blockchains

Junior cloud growing nicely, but calls out customers' easing ardor for distributed ledgers

data centre

Infrastructure services giants still weighed down by clouds

Kyndryl and DXC Technology report declining revenues and worsening bottom line

Abstract illustration of data flowing through a data center

World spending more on cloud infrastructure than ever before

No wonder AWS isn't being shy spending capex on buildouts

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Microsoft Azure

Microsoft extends life of cloud servers from four to six years

Banks billions by making gear last even longer than AWS or Google

Deltaflight

Delta Airlines takes flight with Amazon Web Services

If you look out the window to your left, you'll see we've outsourced our infrastructure

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Your top 5 liquid cooling quandaries answered, according to Omdia

Liquid cooling has its advantages, but it's not for everyone, says analyst

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Cloud infrastructure spend to crack $90b and overtake non-cloud in 2022

Buyers other than cloud operators remain the dominant source of dollars