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“Microsoft has no magical 'get out of US surveillance law' card to play, and its sovereign private cloud is writing checks it cannot cash."
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/microsoft-announces-new-sov…

Microsoft has announced new 'sovereign cloud' services - but just how sovereign can they be?
Microsoft has announced new ‘sovereign cloud’ services for Europe in response to regulations and concerns about control, security and privacy.

Environmentally-Conscious Cloud Orchestration Considering Geo-Distributed Data Centers
Giulio Attenni, Novella Bartolini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11563 h…

Environmentally-Conscious Cloud Orchestration Considering Geo-Distributed Data Centers
This paper presents a theoretical discussion for environmentally-conscious job deployment and migration in cloud environments, aiming to minimize the environmental impact of resource provisioning while incorporating sustainability requirements. As the demand for sustainable cloud services grows, it is crucial for cloud customers to select data center operators based on sustainability metrics and to accurately report the ecological footprint of their services. To this end, we analyze sustainabil…

GroupNL: Low-Resource and Robust CNN Design over Cloud and Device
Chuntao Ding, Jianhang Xie, Junna Zhang, Salman Raza, Shangguang Wang, Jiannong Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12335

GroupNL: Low-Resource and Robust CNN Design over Cloud and Device
It has become mainstream to deploy Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models on ubiquitous Internet of Things (IoT) devices with the help of the cloud to provide users with a variety of high-quality services. Most existing methods have two limitations: (i) low robustness in handling corrupted image data collected by IoT devices; and (ii) high consumption of computational and transmission resources. To this end, we propose the Grouped NonLinear transformation generation method (GroupNL), which g…

Building Automotive Security on Internet Standards: An Integration of DNSSEC, DANE, and DANCE to Authenticate and Authorize In-Car Services
Timo Salomon, Mehmet Mueller, Philipp Meyer, Thomas C. Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13261

Building Automotive Security on Internet Standards: An Integration of DNSSEC, DANE, and DANCE to Authenticate and Authorize In-Car Services
The automotive industry is undergoing a software-as-a-service transformation that enables software-defined functions and post-sale updates via cloud and vehicle-to-everything communication. Connectivity in cars introduces significant security challenges, as remote attacks on vehicles have become increasingly prevalent. Current automotive designs call for security solutions that address the entire lifetime of a vehicle. In this paper, we propose to authenticate and authorize in-vehicle services …

Google Cloud has competed well against AWS in AI, attracting business from The Browser Company, Safe Superintelligence, Thinking Machines Lab, and OpenAI (Kevin McLaughlin/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-finds-crack-amazons-c…

Google Finds a Crack in Amazon’s Cloud Dominance
Earlier this year, when The Browser Company was looking for a cloud provider to power the artificial intelligence features in a web browser it was developing, the startup’s leaders asked Amazon Web Services if it could handle the work. Winning this business was important to AWS. The Browser ...

This type of reasoning is always baffling to me. When climate change is discussed these people always say that there is some magical technological solution that will pop up to save us (usually handed to us by the AI gods).
Why then, in the the several decades that it takes to scale up nuclear, can we not account for the possibility that AI could become more energy efficient?
That sounds like something you could solve for the cost of a few power plants...

UK needs more nuclear to power AI, says Amazon Web Services boss
The world's largest cloud computing company plans to spend £8bn on new data centres in the UK over the next four years.

#European #Cloud Modules
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/european-cloud-modules/…

Arcturus: A Cloud Overlay Network for Global Accelerator with Enhanced Performance and Stability
Matthew Yang Liu, Chuang Chen, Pengcheng Lv, Hui Guo, Yanan Zhang, Cong Wang, Yusen Li, Zhenyu Li, Yu-Chu Tian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.10928

Arcturus: A Cloud Overlay Network for Global Accelerator with Enhanced Performance and Stability
Global Accelerator (GA) services play a vital role in ensuring low-latency, high-reliability communication for real-time interactive applications. However, existing GA offerings are tightly bound to specific cloud providers, resulting in high costs, rigid deployment, and limited flexibility, especially for large-scale or budget-sensitive deployments. Arcturus is a cloud-native GA framework that revisits the design of GA systems by leveraging low-cost, heterogeneous cloud resources across multip…

Building Automotive Security on Internet Standards: An Integration of DNSSEC, DANE, and DANCE to Authenticate and Authorize In-Car Services
Timo Salomon, Mehmet Mueller, Philipp Meyer, Thomas C. Schmidt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13261

Building Automotive Security on Internet Standards: An Integration of DNSSEC, DANE, and DANCE to Authenticate and Authorize In-Car Services
The automotive industry is undergoing a software-as-a-service transformation that enables software-defined functions and post-sale updates via cloud and vehicle-to-everything communication. Connectivity in cars introduces significant security challenges, as remote attacks on vehicles have become increasingly prevalent. Current automotive designs call for security solutions that address the entire lifetime of a vehicle. In this paper, we propose to authenticate and authorize in-vehicle services …

Capitalism − Big Tech − single points of failure https://mas.to/@nemo/114676003248609889

Google services, AWS, Spotify, Cloudflare, and other services appear to be in a partial outage, according to Downdetector (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/06/12/google-cloud-outage-june-12/

It’s not just you, Google and many other web services appear to be in a partial outage right now
If you’re struggling with Google services right now, you’re not alone as it appears that a partial outage is affecting...

Before the Danish government announced its move, Denmark's largest cities, Copenhagen and Aarhus, had already announced plans to phase out Microsoft software and cloud services
https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-denmark-

Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux
Before the Danish government announced its move, Denmark's largest cities, Copenhagen and Aarhus, had already announced plans to phase out Microsoft software and cloud services. Here's why.

AWS = Amazon = Jeff Bezos, auf dem Schoß von Trump.
Corporate Presence.
European sovereign cloud.
Merkste selbst.
Souverän? Wer ist da souverän? Was bedeutet dieses sinnentleerte Wort? Nichts.
AWS establishes new German corporate presence to advance European sovereign cloud | TechCrunch

Happy Fourth of July!
There are many great things about the United States of America, but there are so many ways “we need to do better.” Together, we can.
Check out my article for Heal Our Culture: “Commit To Do Better”
https://open.substack…

Commit To Do Better
At the start of every Caldwell Presbyterian Church worship service, our leaders share a “land acknowledgment,” remembering and acknowledging the native people and First Nations from whom the land our church was built on was unlawfully taken from / stolen from.

"Alibaba Cloud will be discontinuing services in the Nanjing - Local Region Zone A (cn-nanjing-a) And Fuzhou - Local Region Zone A (cn-fuzhou-a) regions."
New orders end 2025-08-15, service fully discontinued 2026-07-14.
#AS37963

One aspect of copyright is you may be licensed to have a copy of a file, but that doesn't grant the right to sub-license. So, technically, you can't use a service to transfer that file or (often) store it on cloud services - because they usually require you grant a perpetual license.
In practice this has been ignored as nobody expected it to be an issue.
Maybe until the question of AI training?

"Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux"
https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-denmark-is-dumping-microsoft-office-and-windows-for-libreoffice-and-linux/

Why Denmark is dumping Microsoft Office and Windows for LibreOffice and Linux
Before the Danish government announced its move, Denmark's largest cities, Copenhagen and Aarhus, had already announced plans to phase out Microsoft software and cloud services. Here's why.

Semantic Communication-Enabled Cloud-Edge-End-collaborative Metaverse Services Architecure
Yuxuan Li, Sheng Jinag, Bizhu Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10001

Semantic Communication-Enabled Cloud-Edge-End-collaborative Metaverse Services Architecure
With technology advancing and the pursuit of new audiovisual experiences strengthening, the metaverse has gained surging enthusiasm. However, it faces practical hurdles as substantial data like high-resolution virtual scenes must be transmitted between cloud platforms and VR devices. Specifically, the VR device's wireless transmission hampered by insufficient bandwidth, causes speed and delay problems. Meanwhile, poor channel quality leads to data errors and worsens user experience. To solve th…

Multi-service messaging app Beeper relaunches, introducing premium offerings and the option to switch to an on-device model; Automattic acquired Beeper in 2024 (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/16/beep

Beeper's all-in-one messaging app relaunches with an on-device model and premium upgrades | TechCrunch
Multi-service messaging app Beeper, which allows people to connect to all their chat apps from one interface, is relaunching its app on Wednesday to offer a more secure version that no longer requires use of its own cloud services.

A little tip to all those folks using Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud: you're paying ~ 20x more than you need to be paying. If you claim you're using 'special services only provided by __insert name of ripoff cloud provider here__' then you've got your organisation locked into a single provider with the inability to move to a better one. Consider your options very carefully & build vendor-agnostic systems. Dependence on

Researchers demonstrate a Rowhammer-style attack on Nvidia's RTX A6000, widely used in cloud services, and say it would likely work against other Nvidia GPUs (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/

Nvidia chips become the first GPUs to fall to Rowhammer bit-flip attacks
GPUhammer is the first to flip bits in onboard GPU memory. It likely won’t be the last.

Offenbar ist #Brandenburg mit Tesla noch nicht genug gestraft. Amazon will auch was vom Wasser.
Und nein, mit 'Souveränität' hat es nichts zu tun, wenn einer von Trumps Buddys hier mehr Geld verdienen will.
Ort ist noch geheim: Internet, kriegen wir das raus?
Amazon will als Cloud-Anbieter 8 Milliarden Euro in Brandenburg investieren | rbb24

(1/2) Here is the link to a webpage featuring the 32 InfoPics my 7th grade students created to advertise our local “World Refugee Day” on Saturday, June 21, 2025, as well as the overall, important work of Refugee Support Services (RSS) of Charlotte, North Carolina:
https://lessons.wesfryer.com/courses/c

Lessons by Dr. Wesley Fryer (wesfryer.com) - RSS
These are InfoPics 7th graders at Providence Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina, created in May 2025 to support and amplify the work of Refugee Support Services (RSS) of Charlotte, a local non-profit connected with our office of community engagement. Please use them to share about RSS, amplify

Cloud-Based Interoperability in Residential Energy Systems
Darren Leniston, David Ryan, Ammar Malik, Jack Jackman, Terence O'Donnell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05076

Cloud-Based Interoperability in Residential Energy Systems
As distributed energy resources (DERs) such as solar PV, batteries and electric vehicles become increasingly prevalent at the edge, maintaining grid stability requires advanced monitoring and control mechanisms. This paper presents a scalable smart grid gateway architecture that enables interoperability between Modbus-based inverters and IEEE 2030.5 cloud-based control systems. The proposed solution leverages Azure cloud services and edge-computing gateway devices to support dynamic configurati…

The move to Windows 11 isn’t just about security updates.
It increases dependence on Microsoft through aggressive cloud integration,
forcing users to adopt Microsoft accounts and services.
It also leads to higher costs due to subscription and licensing models,
and reduces control over how your computer works and how your data is managed.
Furthermore, new hardware requirements will render millions of perfectly good PCs obsolete.
This is a turning point.

The end of Windows 10 is approaching, so it's time to consider Linux and LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
The Document Foundation and LibreOffice support the international campaign @endof10 https://endof10.org/ The countdown has begun. On 14 October 2025, Microsoft will end support for Windows 10. This will leave millions of users and organisations with a difficult choice: should they upgrade to Windows 11, or completely rethink their work environment? The good news? You don’t […]

Automating Multi-Tenancy Performance Evaluation on Edge Compute Nodes
Joanna Georgiou, Moysis Symeonides, George Pallis, Marios D. Dikaiakos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10461

Automating Multi-Tenancy Performance Evaluation on Edge Compute Nodes
Edge Computing emerges as a promising alternative of Cloud Computing, with scalable compute resources and services deployed in the path between IoT devices and Cloud. Since virtualization techniques can be applied on Edge compute nodes, administrators can share their Edge infrastructures among multiple users, providing the so-called multi-tenancy. Even though multi-tenancy is unavoidable, it raises concerns about security and performance degradation due to resource contention in Edge Computing.…

In Europe and other regions we have laws mandating that electronic devices must be properly labelled with information about their energy consumption and some other externalities...
We should demand equivalent or at least similar measures for commercially distributed software, same for cloud services.
It would be a fun experience for us, software devs, being forced to acknowledge how terribly bad is the software we create.
We should be held accountable.
#software #ecologism

> New partnership sees Google Cloud agree to work with the UK government in helping public services use advanced tech to shake off decades old ‘ball and chain’ legacy contracts which leave essential services vulnerable to cyberattack.
"ball and chain" being a government code term for Windows?

New Google partnership will help rid taxpayer of ‘ball and chain’ legacy tech and aim to upskill 100,000 civil servants in tech and AI
New partnership with Google Cloud will help modernise outdated government IT, upskill 100,000 civil servants in digital and AI by 2030, and secure better tech deals for the taxpayer.

At its core, #CCSignals is an attempt by Creative Commons, a Silicon Valley-based organisation, to legitimise the AI grifts of its donors – Google, Microsoft, and Meta (Zuckerberg).
Creative Commons was always a thinly-veiled attempt at enabling Big Tech data farmers to get more data (that’s why the whole “open data” realm is so well funded/popular – open as in “open for business” not fre…

Replit announces a partnership with Microsoft to make its platform available in the Azure Marketplace and integrate its tech with some Microsoft cloud services (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/08/in-a-blow-to-google…

In a blow to Google Cloud, Replit partners with Microsoft | TechCrunch
Replit is one of the breakout stars of the vibe coding world. This partnership is a good deal for both companies.

Finally cancelled my Ideogram subscription today, I've had it for the past 12 months and loved it.
Now I'm using ChatGPT 4o almost exclusively for my AI image generation needs.
I updated my paid subscriptions list:
https://wiki.wesfryer.com/subscriptions

wesfryer - Subscriptions
Thoughts on Subscriptions: Have you noticed lots of companies and people want you to SUBSCRIBE to their service or commit to a MONTHLY payment / fee? Services like TRIM can help us identify, remember and manage our subscriptions. (s/o to Jason Neiffer in EdTechSR Ep 235) It can be helpful to SHARE

Versteckte Preiserhöhungen bei #SAP? SAP ändert Cloud-ERP-Preismodelle: #KI-Funktionen künftig nur noch als Zusatzoption
Nach Rebranding und Paketumstellung müssen SAP-Kunden KI-Features separat lizenzieren. CIOs drohen höhere Kosten und mehr...

Versteckte Preiserhöhungen bei SAP?
SAP sortiert seine Softwarepakete inklusive Lizenzierung neu. CIOs sollten daher die Kosten genau im Blick behalten, vor allem wenn es um KI-Services geht.

M$^2$-MFP: A Multi-Scale and Multi-Level Memory Failure Prediction Framework for Reliable Cloud Infrastructure
Hongyi Xie, Min Zhou, Qiao Yu, Jialiang Yu, Zhenli Sheng, Hong Xie, Defu Lian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07144

M$^2$-MFP: A Multi-Scale and Multi-Level Memory Failure Prediction Framework for Reliable Cloud Infrastructure
As cloud services become increasingly integral to modern IT infrastructure, ensuring hardware reliability is essential to sustain high-quality service. Memory failures pose a significant threat to overall system stability, making accurate failure prediction through the analysis of memory error logs (i.e., Correctable Errors) imperative. Existing memory failure prediction approaches have notable limitations: rule-based expert models suffer from limited generalizability and low recall rates, whil…

Cloudflare confirms Russia restricting access to services amid free internet crackdown https://therecord.media/cloudflare-russia-restricting-access-crackdown

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.07849 has been replaced.
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The Invisible Hand: Unveiling Provider Bias in Large Language Models for Code Generation
Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged as the new recommendation engines, surpassing traditional methods in both capability and scope, particularly in code generation. In this paper, we reveal a novel provider bias in LLMs: without explicit directives, these models show systematic preferences for services from specific providers in their recommendations (e.g., favoring Google Cloud over Microsoft Azure). To systematically investigate this bias, we develop an automated pipeline to construct t…

FicGCN: Unveiling the Homomorphic Encryption Efficiency from Irregular Graph Convolutional Networks
Zhaoxuan Kan, Husheng Han, Shangyi Shi, Tenghui Hua, Hang Lu, Xiaowei Li, Jianan Mu, Xing Hu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10399

FicGCN: Unveiling the Homomorphic Encryption Efficiency from Irregular Graph Convolutional Networks
Graph Convolutional Neural Networks (GCNs) have gained widespread popularity in various fields like personal healthcare and financial systems, due to their remarkable performance. Despite the growing demand for cloud-based GCN services, privacy concerns over sensitive graph data remain significant. Homomorphic Encryption (HE) facilitates Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning (PPML) by allowing computations to be performed on encrypted data. However, HE introduces substantial computational overhea…

A Global-scale Database of Seismic Phases from Cloud-based Picking at Petabyte Scale
Yiyu Ni, Marine A. Denolle, Amanda M. Thomas, Alex Hamilton, Jannes M\"unchmeyer, Yinzhi Wang, Lo\"ic Bachelot, Chad Trabant, David Mencin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18874

A Global-scale Database of Seismic Phases from Cloud-based Picking at Petabyte Scale
We present the first global-scale database of 4.3 billion P- and S-wave picks extracted from 1.3 PB continuous seismic data via a cloud-native workflow. Using cloud computing services on Amazon Web Services, we launched ~145,000 containerized jobs on continuous records from 47,354 stations spanning 2002-2025, completing in under three days. Phase arrivals were identified with a deep learning model, PhaseNet, through an open-source Python ecosystem for deep learning, SeisBench. To visualize and …

Is Your LLM Overcharging You? Tokenization, Transparency, and Incentives
Ander Artola Velasco, Stratis Tsirtsis, Nastaran Okati, Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21627

Is Your LLM Overcharging You? Tokenization, Transparency, and Incentives
State-of-the-art large language models require specialized hardware and substantial energy to operate. As a consequence, cloud-based services that provide access to large language models have become very popular. In these services, the price users pay for an output provided by a model depends on the number of tokens the model uses to generate it -- they pay a fixed price per token. In this work, we show that this pricing mechanism creates a financial incentive for providers to strategize and mi…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02829 has been replaced.
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CE-CoLLM: Efficient and Adaptive Large Language Models Through Cloud-Edge Collaboration
Large Language Models (LLMs) exhibit remarkable human-like predictive capabilities. However, it is challenging to deploy LLMs to provide efficient and adaptive inference services at the edge. This paper proposes a novel Cloud-Edge Collaboration framework for LLMs (CE-CoLLM) to tackle these challenges. First, we identify the transmission of LLM contextual data between the cloud and edge as a key performance bottleneck, which introduces substantial communication overhead that dominates overall in…

While searching for an AWS alternative, I just stumbled upon the website #EuropeanAlternatives https://european-alternatives.eu/ which lists digital services and products from the EU. Just browse…

Interested in how "sovereign EU" AWS will work with Cloudfront and Trust Services (certificates) as these still currently require the use of us-east-1... and the subsequent agreement to submit to US courts for disputes.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/03/aws

AWS forms EU-based cloud unit as customers fret about Trump 2.0
: Locally run, Euro-controlled, ‘legally independent,' and ready by the end of 2025

A Fragmentation-Aware Adaptive Bilevel Search Framework for Service Mapping in Computing Power Networks
Jingzhao Xie, Zhenglian Li, Gang Sun, Long Luo, Hongfang Yu, Dusit Niyato
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07535

A Fragmentation-Aware Adaptive Bilevel Search Framework for Service Mapping in Computing Power Networks
Computing Power Network (CPN) unifies wide-area computing resources through coordinated network control, while cloud-native abstractions enable flexible resource orchestration and on-demand service provisioning atop the elastic infrastructure CPN provides. However, current approaches fall short of fully integrating computing resources via network-enabled coordination as envisioned by CPN. In particular, optimally mapping services to an underlying infrastructure to maximize resource efficiency a…

Atys: An Efficient Profiling Framework for Identifying Hotspot Functions in Large-scale Cloud Microservices
Jiaqi Sun, Dingyu Yang, Shiyou Qian, Jian Cao, Guangtao Xue
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15523

Atys: An Efficient Profiling Framework for Identifying Hotspot Functions in Large-scale Cloud Microservices
To handle the high volume of requests, large-scale services are comprised of thousands of instances deployed in clouds. These services utilize diverse programming languages and are distributed across various nodes as encapsulated containers. Given their vast scale, even minor performance enhancements can lead to significant cost reductions. In this paper, we introduce Atys1, an efficient profiling framework specifically designed to identify hotspot functions within large-scale distributed servi…

OpenAI rolls out connectors for services like Dropbox and OneDrive for ChatGPT Team, Enterprise, and Edu users; MCP support is coming to Pro, Team, Enterprise (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/04/chat

ChatGPT introduces meeting recording and connectors for Google Drive, Box, and more | TechCrunch
OpenAI's ChatGPT is adding new features for business users, including integrations with different cloud services, meeting recording, and MCP connection

WatchWitch: Interoperability, Privacy, and Autonomy for the Apple Watch
Nils Rollshausen, Alexander Heinrich, Matthias Hollick, Jiska Classen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07210

WatchWitch: Interoperability, Privacy, and Autonomy for the Apple Watch
Smartwatches such as the Apple Watch collect vast amounts of intimate health and fitness data as we wear them. Users have little choice regarding how this data is processed: The Apple Watch can only be used with Apple's iPhones, using their software and their cloud services. We are the first to publicly reverse-engineer the watch's wireless protocols, which led to discovering multiple security issues in Apple's proprietary implementation. With WatchWitch, our custom Android reimplementation, we…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22862 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_eco…

Optimal Auction Design for Dynamic Stochastic Environments: Myerson Meets Naor
Allocation of goods and services often involves both stochastic supply and stochastic demand. Motivated by applications such as cloud computing, gig platforms, and blockchain auctions, we study the design of optimal selling mechanisms in an environment where buyers with private valuations arrive stochastically and are assigned goods that also arrive stochastically, and either buyers or goods can be held in a queue at costs until allocation. The optimal mechanism dynamically leverages competitiv…

Service Placement in Small Cell Networks Using Distributed Best Arm Identification in Linear Bandits
Mariam Yahya, Aydin Sezgin, Setareh Maghsudi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22480 …

Service Placement in Small Cell Networks Using Distributed Best Arm Identification in Linear Bandits
As users in small cell networks increasingly rely on computation-intensive services, cloud-based access often results in high latency. Multi-access edge computing (MEC) mitigates this by bringing computational resources closer to end users, with small base stations (SBSs) serving as edge servers to enable low-latency service delivery. However, limited edge capacity makes it challenging to decide which services to deploy locally versus in the cloud, especially under unknown service demand and dy…

Exploring Privacy and Security as Drivers for Environmental Sustainability in Cloud-Based Office Solutions
Jason Kayembe, Iness Ben Guirat, Jan Tobias M\"uhlberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23866

Exploring Privacy and Security as Drivers for Environmental Sustainability in Cloud-Based Office Solutions
In this paper, we explore the intersection of privacy, security, and environmental sustainability in cloud-based office solutions, focusing on quantifying user- and network-side energy use and associated carbon emissions. We hypothesise that privacy-focused services are typically more energy-efficient than those funded through data collection and advertising. To evaluate this, we propose a framework that systematically measures environmental costs based on energy usage and network data traffic …

Efficient and Reuseable Cloud Configuration Search Using Discovery Spaces
Michael Johnston, Burkhard Ringlein, Christoph Hagleitner, Alessandro Pomponio, Vassilis Vassiliadis, Christian Pinto, Srikumar Venugopal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21467

Efficient and Reuseable Cloud Configuration Search Using Discovery Spaces
Finding the optimal set of cloud resources to deploy a given workload at minimal cost while meeting a defined service level agreement is an active area of research. Combining tens of parameters applicable across a large selection of compute, storage, and services offered by cloud providers with similar numbers of application-specific parameters leads to configuration spaces with millions of deployment options. In this paper, we propose Discovery Space, an abstraction that formalizes the descr…

A Hybrid Intrusion Detection System with a New Approach to Protect the Cybersecurity of Cloud Computing
Maryam Mahdi Al-Husseini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19934

A Hybrid Intrusion Detection System with a New Approach to Protect the Cybersecurity of Cloud Computing
Cybersecurity is one of the foremost challenges facing the world of cloud computing. Recently, the widespread adoption of smart devices in cloud computing environments that provide Internet-based services has become prevalent. Therefore, it is essential to consider the security threats in these environments. The use of intrusion detection systems can mitigate the vulnerabilities of these systems. Furthermore, hybrid intrusion detection systems can provide better protection compared to conventio…

RCA Copilot: Transforming Network Data into Actionable Insights via Large Language Models
Alexander Shan, Jasleen Kaur, Rahul Singh, Tarun Banka, Raj Yavatkar, T. Sridhar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.03224

RCA Copilot: Transforming Network Data into Actionable Insights via Large Language Models
Ensuring the reliability and availability of complex networked services demands effective root cause analysis (RCA) across cloud environments, data centers, and on-premises networks. Traditional RCA methods, which involve manual inspection of data sources such as logs and telemetry data, are often time-consuming and challenging for on-call engineers. While statistical inference methods have been employed to estimate the causality of network events, these approaches alone are similarly challengi…

If you ask your technical team to migrate off US cloud infrastructure, they’ll pull faces and ask “to where!?”
https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/22/ditching_us_clouds_for_local/

'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers
: Barriers stack up: Datacenter capacity, egress fees, platform skills, variety of cloud services. It won't happen, say analysts

Optimal Auction Design for Dynamic Stochastic Environments: Myerson Meets Naor
Yeon-Koo Che, Andrew B. Choi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22862 https://

Optimal Auction Design for Dynamic Stochastic Environments: Myerson Meets Naor
Allocation of goods and services often involves both stochastic supply and stochastic demand. Motivated by applications such as cloud computing, gig platforms, and blockchain auctions, we study the design of optimal selling mechanisms in an environment where buyers with private valuations arrive stochastically and are assigned goods that also arrive stochastically, and either buyers or goods can be held in a queue at costs until allocation. The optimal mechanism dynamically leverages competitiv…

Few-Shot Learning-Based Cyber Incident Detection with Augmented Context Intelligence
Fei Zuo, Junghwan Rhee, Yung Ryn Choe, Chenglong Fu, Xianshan Qu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16626

Few-Shot Learning-Based Cyber Incident Detection with Augmented Context Intelligence
In recent years, the adoption of cloud services has been expanding at an unprecedented rate. As more and more organizations migrate or deploy their businesses to the cloud, a multitude of related cybersecurity incidents such as data breaches are on the rise. Many inherent attributes of cloud environments, for example, data sharing, remote access, dynamicity and scalability, pose significant challenges for the protection of cloud security. Even worse, cyber threats are becoming increasingly soph…

SuperSONIC: Cloud-Native Infrastructure for ML Inferencing
Dmitry Kondratyev, Benedikt Riedel, Yuan-Tang Chou, Miles Cochran-Branson, Noah Paladino, David Schultz, Mia Liu, Javier Duarte, Philip Harris, Shih-Chieh Hsu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20657

SuperSONIC: Cloud-Native Infrastructure for ML Inferencing
The increasing computational demand from growing data rates and complex machine learning (ML) algorithms in large-scale scientific experiments has driven the adoption of the Services for Optimized Network Inference on Coprocessors (SONIC) approach. SONIC accelerates ML inference by offloading it to local or remote coprocessors to optimize resource utilization. Leveraging its portability to different types of coprocessors, SONIC enhances data processing and model deployment efficiency for cuttin…

SECNEURON: Reliable and Flexible Abuse Control in Local LLMs via Hybrid Neuron Encryption
Zhiqiang Wang, Haohua Du, Junyang Wang, Haifeng Sun, Kaiwen Guo, Haikuo Yu, Chao Liu, Xiang-Yang Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05242

SECNEURON: Reliable and Flexible Abuse Control in Local LLMs via Hybrid Neuron Encryption
Large language models (LLMs) with diverse capabilities are increasingly being deployed in local environments, presenting significant security and controllability challenges. These locally deployed LLMs operate outside the direct control of developers, rendering them more susceptible to abuse. Existing mitigation techniques mainly designed for cloud-based LLM services are frequently circumvented or ineffective in deployer-controlled environments. We propose SECNEURON, the first framework that se…

Big Data-Driven Fraud Detection Using Machine Learning and Real-Time Stream Processing
Chen Liu, Hengyu Tang, Zhixiao Yang, Ke Zhou, Sangwhan Cha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02008 …

Big Data-Driven Fraud Detection Using Machine Learning and Real-Time Stream Processing
In the age of digital finance, detecting fraudulent transactions and money laundering is critical for financial institutions. This paper presents a scalable and efficient solution using Big Data tools and machine learning models. We utilize realtime data streaming platforms like Apache Kafka and Flink, distributed processing frameworks such as Apache Spark, and cloud storage services AWS S3 and RDS. A synthetic dataset representing real-world Anti-Money Laundering (AML) challenges is employed t…

RL-based Adaptive Task Offloading in Mobile-Edge Computing for Future IoT Networks
Ziad Qais Al Abbasi, Khaled M. Rabie, Senior Member, Xingwang Li, Senior Member, Wali Ullah Khan, Asma Abu Samah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22474

RL-based Adaptive Task Offloading in Mobile-Edge Computing for Future IoT Networks
The Internet of Things (IoT) has been increasingly used in our everyday lives as well as in numerous industrial applications. However, due to limitations in computing and power capabilities, IoT devices need to send their respective tasks to cloud service stations that are usually located at far distances. Having to transmit data far distances introduces challenges for services that require low latency such as industrial control in factories and plants as well as artificial intelligence assiste…

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Edge-First Language Model Inference: Models, Metrics, and Tradeoffs
The widespread adoption of Language Models (LMs) across industries is driving interest in deploying these services across the computing continuum, from the cloud to the network edge. This shift aims to reduce costs, lower latency, and improve reliability and privacy. Small Language Models (SLMs), enabled by advances in model compression, are central to this shift, offering a path to on-device inference on resource-constrained edge platforms. This work examines the interplay between edge and clo…