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AWS launches European Sovereign Cloud, creating a new parent company for its sovereign cloud that will be locally controlled in the EU and run by EU citizens (Arjun Kharpal/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/15/amazon-sovereign-cloud-europe-expansion.html<…

Amazon launches its 'sovereign' cloud in Europe and plots expansion
The Amazon Web Services (AWS) European Sovereign Cloud will be "physically and logically separate" from other AWS regions, the company said.

#Cloud #Cost Comparison for #European Providers
https://www.eucloudco…

This is an important announcement. Google uses it's ecosystem to gain an advantage, "Announcing Model Context Protocol (MCP) support for Google services"
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/ann…

Announcing official MCP support for Google services | Google Cloud Blog
Google is announcing official MCP support for Google and Google Cloud services for AI agents.

Indian IT giant TCS agrees to acquire Coastal Cloud, a Florida-based Salesforce consulting partner, for $700M, in a bid to boost its AI and US customer business (Mark Haranas/CRN)
https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/2025/tcs-bu

TCS Buys Salesforce Star Coastal Cloud For $700M To Create ‘Top Five Salesforce’ Firm
Tata Consultancy Services acquires Salesforce partner Coastal Cloud and ListEngage to boost AI revenue, American customers and Salesforce business.

This isn't the first transfer to aws.eu. This is the most visible and overt shift in assets by the big U.S. cloud providers I'm aware of. Others (e.g., Google and Microsoft) talk about doing more in the EU and providing isolation, but as far as I can tell Amazon's separation is going a step further.
https://

Post by IP/ASN Transfers, @transfers@bgp.tools
"A100 ROW Inc" transferred: 51.72.0.0/15, 2a11:/29, 51.0.128.0/17 (Taken from 51.0.0.0/16), 51.0.0.0/19 (Taken from 51.0.0.0/16), 193.202.192.0/19, 83.118.240.0/20 to "Amazon Data Services European Sovereign Cloud GmbH" (Estimated Market Value: $2.66 M)

One one side i'd rather have those large corporations spend their money in the economy instead of holding cash in the bank account of their billionnaire owners.
On the other hand, it's hard to think there is anything sustainable to the amount of money spent on AI right now.
Screenshot from Bloomberg this morning
#FAANG

🌐 Microsoft premieres new Academic Research Skilling Hub to the GÉANT community
European Research & Education institutions consuming Microsoft #cloud services via GÉANT’s #OCRE2024 Framework now have a new resource: Microsoft's Academic Research Skilling Hub.
Specifically designed for r…

Amazon Web Services: Globale Störung
Diverse Internet-Dienste beklagen derzeit Ausfälle. Das geht auf Störungen der Cloud-Dienste Amazon Web Services zurück.
https://www.heise.de/news/Amazon-Web-Servi

Anyone know of good lightweight Linux distros for #RaspberryPi?
Was trying to repurpose one of my Pies today...
The official Raspberry Pi OS runs some "cloud" services and has Raspberry Pi Connect installed by default.
Not enthusiastic to wait and see the next level of enshitiffication, so looked for an alternative.
Tried

★ Do you get excited or upset about AWS SCPs, or GCP Org Policies?
★ Do you have experience developing software to solve cloud security challenges?
★ Do you downplay your cloud security knowledge but actually you know a lot of niche oddities of cloud IAM?
★ Do you like working in diverse security teams that care about your wellbeing?
★ Do you want to get paid to work on cloud security for one of the most sophisticated AWS environments in the world?
I'm hiring a…

Security Software Engineer (L5), Cloud Infrastructure Security | USA - Remote | Netflix
Netflix is one of the world's leading entertainment services, with over 300 million paid memberships in over 190 countries enjoying TV series, films and games across a wide variety of genres and languages. Members can play, pause and resume watching as much as they want, anytime, anywhere, and can change their plans at any time. Netflix operates our streaming service control plane on Amazon Web Services, which has led to one of the largest and most sophisticated AWS environments in the world. C…

Laut #Handelsblatt setzen 82 % der Unternehmen auf kostenpflichtige Cloud-Services – oft aus reiner Bequemlichkeit. Die Abhängigkeit wächst, die Datensouveränität schrumpft. Man kauft Komfort, bezahlt aber mit Kontrolle. Cloud-first klingt smart – bis die Rechnung wirklich kommt.
#CloudComputing

Naver, the largest South Korean buyer of Nvidia chips, is pitching its AI cloud services as an alternative for countries reluctant to use US or Chinese services (Song Jung-a/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/973d668a-ebaf-493e-b278-a4f584937d45

Sehr lesenswert: Der Verband »Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe« #CISPE bewertet das neue 🇪🇺 »Cloud Sovereignty Framework« in einem Statement als Fehlschlag:
> No Such Thing as “75% Sovereign” – Europe Needs a Clear Definition of “Sovereign Cloud” - The #EU

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Amazon Web Services: Globale Störung am Montagmorgen
https://www.

Amazon Web Services announces AWS RTB Fabric, a real-time bidding service for ad buyers and sellers, aiming to cut integration hours between ad tech partners (Seb Joseph/Digiday)
https://digiday.com/marketing/amazons-next-frontier-in-ad…

Amazon’s next frontier in advertising: the cloud infrastructure it runs on
The ad dollars are nice but the real prize for Amazon is the infrastructure itself -- the rails on which the entire system runs.

»Amazon Web #Service's — DNS-Problem legte zahlreiche #Online-Dienste lahm:
Wenn es einmal bei einem der großen #Cloud Service #Provider

Amazon Web Services: DNS-Problem legte zahlreiche Online-Dienste lahm
Aufgrund eines Problems bei der DNS-Auflösung bei AWS fielen einige Dienste temporär aus. Davon betroffen waren auch Snapchat und Fortnite.

Na - was ist schon wieder down? Richtig.
"Amazon Web Services has now issued a further update, stating in a post at 10.29 a.m. ET that it is once again experiencing network connectivity issues in the US. "
10.29 a.m. ET == 16:29 CEST
https://cnn.it/4qlp9pk

European alternatives for digital products
#Europe #sovereignty

Amazon cloud outage takes down many online services around the world (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/amazon-east-internet-services-outage-654a12ac9aff0bf4b9dc0e22499d92d7
http://www.memeorandum.com/251020/p124#a251020p124

Satya Nadella says Microsoft plans to spend $17.5B on AI and cloud computing in India over four years, its largest ever Asia investment, after meeting with Modi (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Interesting, The Cloud Sovereignty Framework defines the European Commission’s criteria, assurance levels (SEAL), and scoring methodology for assessing the sovereignty of cloud services across strategic, legal, operational, and technological dimensions.
#EU #SEAL

Cloud Sovereignty Framework | European Commission

I don't disagree with suggestions that the UK public sector should have less reliance on the big-three (American) cloud providers. But this has been a concern for more than a decade, and people should at least be aware of both the "GOV.UK PaaS" and UKCloud.

Migrating our data from GOV.UK Platform as a Service (PaaS) to Amazon Web Services (AWS) – MHCLG Digital
After learning that GOV.UK’s hosting platform PaaS is being decommissioned, the Energy Performance of Buildings Register team decided to migrate all their hosting to AWS. In this post, Barry, Developer, explains what they did.

Sources: Nvidia's DGX Cloud is merging with the engineering unit, pivoting from selling cloud services to enterprises to supporting internal AI development (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-restructures-clou…

Nvidia Restructures Cloud Team After Retreating From AWS Competition
More than two years after Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang shared his vision to develop a cloud service that could rival Amazon Web Services, he has backed away from competing with such firms and last week reorganized his company’s cloud team, according to several people with knowledge of the ...

AWS launches DevOps Agent, an AI-enabled tool designed to help clients quickly identify root causes of outages and implement fixes, available in preview (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/02/amazon-launches-cloud-ai-tool…

Amazon launches cloud AI tool to help engineers recover from outages faster
Amazon Web Services' DevOps Agent is meant to help developers more quickly figure out what caused an outage and how to fix it.

Sigh. US-east-1 still messing with cloud-based services.

Google Cloud partners with Replit to expand the use of Google's cloud offerings and AI models and to jointly support AI use cases for enterprise customers (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/04/google-replit-ai-vibe-coding-anthropic-cursor.html

Google taps AI vibe-coder Replit in challenge to Anthropic and Cursor
Replit will expand usage of Google Cloud services, add more of Google's models onto its platform, and support AI coding use cases for enterprise customers.

Weekend project: set up an IP cam server with Frigate on a Raspberry Pi I had lying around at my parents' house.
I'm worried about those old bastards, but I'm also worried that the stream from those cameras will end up on some hidden Internet forums.
I'm not interested in using the "cloud services" so kindly offered to me by big companies.
#privacy

Announcing the #Swift SDK for #Android
https://www.swift.org/blog/nightly-swift-sdk-for-androi…

As part of the AWS deal, OpenAI says it will immediately begin running workloads on AWS infrastructure, tapping hundreds of thousands of Nvidia GPUs in the US (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/03/open-ai-amazon-aws-cloud-deal.html

Amazon closes at record after $38 billion OpenAI deal with AWS
OpenAI will immediately begin tapping Nvidia's AI processors using infrastructure from Amazon Web Services.

Ausfälle bei AWS - Probleme bei Amazon: Zahlreiche Dienste gestört #News #Nachrichten

Moderne Formen der #Obsoleszenz:
Die #Cloudunterstützung für #Neato-#Saugroboter

Neato’s cloud is shutting down, leaving its robovacs stuck in manual mode
Neato Robotics is officially ending support for cloud services for its robot vacuum cleaners.

The AWS Outage Bricked People’s $2,700 Smartbeds https://www.404media.co/the-aws-outage-bricked-peoples-2-700-smartbeds/

An interview with AWS CEO Matt Garman on his AI vision, how he plans to extend Amazon's cloud market lead, adding AI to AWS services, AI efficiencies, and more (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-aws-ceo-matt-garman-ai-agents/

AWS CEO Matt Garman Wants to Reassert Amazon’s Cloud Dominance in the AI Era
As Google and Microsoft continue to surge, the AWS chief lays out his pitch: cheaper, reliable AI delivered at hyperscale.

Google Cloud and Palo Alto Networks strike a deal that a source says is Google Cloud's largest security services deal "approaching $10B" over several years (Kenrick Cai/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/google-cl

How Nokia has reinvented itself for the AI revolution by expanding into cloud services, data centers, and optical networks, and by partnering with Nvidia (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)

Indian IT services provider Coforge agrees to acquire Encora, which offers AI tools for product, cloud, and data engineering, at an enterprise value of $2.35B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/india/indias-coforge-acquire-us-based…

Investigation: the US government allowed and even helped US companies sell tech used for China's surveillance across five GOP and Democratic administrations (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/chinese-sur

US government helps Silicon Valley firms sell surveillance technology to China
Even while warning about national security and human rights abuse, the U.S. government across five Republican and Democratic administrations has repeatedly allowed and even actively helped American firms to sell technology to Chinese police, government and surveillance companies, an Associated Press investigation has found. And time after time, despite bipartisan attempts, Congress has turned a blind eye to loopholes that allow China to work around its own rules, such as cloud services, third-p…

Cloudflare says "a fix has been implemented and we believe the incident is now resolved", after a major outage impacted X, ChatGPT, and others from 11:48am UTC (Andrew Griffin/The Independent)
https://www.the-independent.com/tech/cloudf…

Cloudflare down: Websites such as Twitter not working amid technical problems with the internet
Outage comes around a month after Amazon Web Services outage also took much of the internet offline