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Responding to the growing demand from organisations worldwide to reduce their dependency on US cloud providers, German software giant SAP has announced plans to invest more than €20 billion over the next decade in sovereign cloud infrastructure, research and development and personnel.

SAP promises €20bn+ to expand its sovereign cloud services
Responding to the growing demand from organisations worldwide to reduce their dependency on US cloud providers, German software giant SAP has announced plans to invest ...

Microsoft says it agreed to give the US GSA $6B in potential savings on Office, Azure, 365, and other tools over three years, including $3.1B in the first year (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/02/microsoft-offers-us-…

Microsoft offers U.S. government over $6 billion in savings on cloud services over 3 years
Microsoft is the latest company to discount the cost of its software to the General Services Administration.

Anybody out there who uses DigitalOcean cloud services, beware a phishing email telling you you've got an invoice for 'Support Services' that is DigitalOcean branded - check the URL of the payment button (which reveals a sham domain name when you hover over it).

From my LinkedIn post: “Telling your dev team to use AI coding tools is like telling your 2010 ops team to use AWS. They didn’t know how to code, they were ticket and click-it VMware people… developers who don’t have product management mindset or have never managed a dev team will fail by trying to micromanage the output of the tool rather than specifying the outcome of the product and managing the agent team to deliver that outcome.”

Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing… | Adrian Cockcroft
Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing tickets and waiting for data center ops teams to do what we need. We worked around the issues, built a new cloud native developer driven architecture and scaled Netflix at speed. At the time many people said we were crazy to run a large enterprise on cloud and would be back in datacenters when it failed. …

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

Microsoft cuts off cloud services to Israeli military unit after report of storing Palestinians’ phone calls
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/25/microsoft-cuts-cloud-services-to-israeli-military-after-investigation.html

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

★ 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…

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Another excellent thread from @… I especially agree with this bit:
"The EU needs to get the *hell* off US tech infrastructure. Under Trump, Big Tech and the US government have stopped even pretending that American tech companies are independent of the US government. We know (from China) that Apple will happily backdoor its cloud servers to assuage authoritarian governments"
Not easy for even a motivated person to achieve without a lot of help though. Yet.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115271300104707706
pluralistic@mamot.fr - Apple has threatened to stop selling iPhones and other devices in the European Union (home to over 500,000,000 affluent consumers) if the bloc doesn't rescind the Digital Markets Act, a democratically accountable anti-monopoly law that bans Apple from blocking third parties from offering services to iPhone owners:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/25/apple-calls-for-changes-to-anti-monopoly-laws-and-says-it-may-stop-shipping-to-the-eu
 
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Source: Meta has signed a deal with Google, worth more than $10B over six years, to use Google Cloud's servers, storage, networking, and other services (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/meta-signs-10-billion-plus-cloud-deal-goo…

Meta Signs $10 Billion-Plus Cloud Deal With Google
Google has struck a major cloud computing deal with Meta Platforms, according to two people familiar with the matter. As part of the agreement, the social media giant will use Google Cloud’s servers, storage, networking and other services, one of the people said. The deal—worth more than $10 ...

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of On-Premise Large Language Model Deployment: Breaking Even with Commercial LLM Services
Guanzhong Pan, Haibo Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18101 http…

A Cost-Benefit Analysis of On-Premise Large Language Model Deployment: Breaking Even with Commercial LLM Services
Large language models (LLMs) are becoming increasingly widespread. Organizations that want to use AI for productivity now face an important decision. They can subscribe to commercial LLM services or deploy models on their own infrastructure. Cloud services from providers such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google are attractive because they provide easy access to state-of-the-art models and are easy to scale. However, concerns about data privacy, the difficulty of switching service providers, and lo…

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.

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

Aha, jetzt weiß ich, wieso meine #Signal App heute Vormittag stundenlang nicht funktionierte. Ich hatte schon befürchtet, ich müsste sie neu installieren.
https://www.dw.com/d…

Amazon Web Services: Störung lähmt Online-Welt stundenlang
Ob Fortnite oder Zoom, Signal oder Alexa: Zahlreiche Internetdienste sind am Montagvormittag in die Knie gegangen. Schuld war ein Ausfall beim Cloud-Anbieter des Netzgiganten Amazon.

Games Are Not Equal: Classifying Cloud Gaming Contexts for Effective User Experience Measurement
Yifan Wang, Minzhao Lyu, Vijay Sivaraman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19669 https:…

Games Are Not Equal: Classifying Cloud Gaming Contexts for Effective User Experience Measurement
To tap into the growing market of cloud gaming, whereby game graphics is rendered in the cloud and streamed back to the user as a video feed, network operators are creating monetizable assurance services that dynamically provision network resources. However, without accurately measuring cloud gaming user experience, they cannot assess the effectiveness of their provisioning methods. Basic measures such as bandwidth and frame rate by themselves do not suffice, and can only be interpreted in the …

»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

The Unwritten Contract of Cloud-based Elastic Solid-State Drives
Yingjia Wang, Ming-Chang Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17372 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.…

The Unwritten Contract of Cloud-based Elastic Solid-State Drives
Elastic block storage (EBS) with the storage-compute disaggregated architecture stands as a pivotal piece in today's cloud. EBS furnishes users with storage capabilities through the elastic solid-state drive (ESSD). Nevertheless, despite the widespread integration into cloud services, the absence of a thorough ESSD performance characterization raises critical doubt: when more and more services are shifted onto the cloud, can ESSD satisfactorily substitute the storage responsibilities of the loc…

Artificial Intelligence-Based Multiscale Temporal Modeling for Anomaly Detection in Cloud Services
Lian Lian, Yilin Li, Song Han, Renzi Meng, Sibo Wang, Ming Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14503

Artificial Intelligence-Based Multiscale Temporal Modeling for Anomaly Detection in Cloud Services
This study proposes an anomaly detection method based on the Transformer architecture with integrated multiscale feature perception, aiming to address the limitations of temporal modeling and scale-aware feature representation in cloud service environments. The method first employs an improved Transformer module to perform temporal modeling on high-dimensional monitoring data, using a self-attention mechanism to capture long-range dependencies and contextual semantics. Then, a multiscale featur…

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

Engineering Automotive Digital Twins on Standardized Architectures: A Case Study
Stefan Ramdhan, Winnie Trandinh, Istvan David, Vera Pantelic, Mark Lawford
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18662

Engineering Automotive Digital Twins on Standardized Architectures: A Case Study
Digital twin (DT) technology has become of interest in the automotive industry. There is a growing need for smarter services that utilize the unique capabilities of DTs, ranging from computer-aided remote control to cloud-based fleet coordination. Developing such services starts with the software architecture. However, the scarcity of DT architectural guidelines poses a challenge for engineering automotive DTs. Currently, the only DT architectural standard is the one defined in ISO 23247. Thoug…

Experience Deploying Containerized GenAI Services at an HPC Center
Angel M. Beltre, Jeff Ogden, Kevin Pedretti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20603 https://arx…

Experience Deploying Containerized GenAI Services at an HPC Center
Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) applications are built from specialized components -- inference servers, object storage, vector and graph databases, and user interfaces -- interconnected via web-based APIs. While these components are often containerized and deployed in cloud environments, such capabilities are still emerging at High-Performance Computing (HPC) centers. In this paper, we share our experience deploying GenAI workloads within an established HPC center, discussing the in…

Ich bin heute auf dem @… Summit in Berlin. Sprecht mich gerne an, falls ihr mich erkennt. 😎 #SCSSummit #Sovereigncloudstack

Source: Nvidia is scaling back DGX Cloud to primarily internal R&D use; DGX Cloud was initially envisioned to compete with major cloud providers like AWS (Anissa Gardizy/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-steps-back-cloud-ef…

Nvidia Steps Back From Cloud Effort to Compete with AWS
Nvidia is stepping back from its nascent cloud computing business, which had put it in quasi-competition with Amazon Web Services. It has lessened its efforts to attract businesses to the cloud service, dubbed DGX Cloud, said a person with direct knowledge of the situation. Instead, Nvidia plans ...

Translation: #BigTech has paid #BigTech too much money for CurrentFad
https://techhub.social/@Techmeme/11506

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.

Yay! Let's celebrate centralization :mortysmile:
"Microsoft Azure Faces Global Outage Impacting Services Worldwide"
https://cyberpress.org/microsoft-azure-faces-global-outage-impacting-services-worldwide/

Most cloud companies have pledged to return more water to communities than they consume by 2030. But datacentre water consumption is rising inline with corporate thirst for cloud services. How are CSPs doing at making targets for water conservation a reality?
https://www.computing.co.uk/research/2025/

Cooling the Cloud: Is ‘water positive by 2030’ just a pipedream?
Most cloud companies have pledged to return more water to communities than they consume by 2030. But datacentre water consumption is rising inline with corporate thirst for cloud services. How are CSPs doing at making targets for water conservation a reality?

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

Democratizing AI Development: Local LLM Deployment for India's Developer Ecosystem in the Era of Tokenized APIs
Vikranth Udandarao, Nipun Misra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16684

Democratizing AI Development: Local LLM Deployment for India's Developer Ecosystem in the Era of Tokenized APIs
India's developer community faces significant barriers to sustained experimentation and learning with commercial Large Language Model (LLM) APIs, primarily due to economic and infrastructural constraints. This study empirically evaluates local LLM deployment using Ollama as an alternative to commercial cloud-based services for developer-focused applications. Through a mixed-methods analysis involving 180 Indian developers, students, and AI enthusiasts, we find that local deployment enables subs…

Sjovt. Det ser ud som det tidspunkt, hvor MitID gik totalt på rŸven. Endnu en gang har man tilladt, at dansk infrastruktur skyder sig i foden ved at gŸre sig afhængige af andres tjenester i stedet for selv at drifte og kontrollere – endsige at have fallback. #dkpol

Security smells in infrastructure as code: a taxonomy update beyond the seven sins
Aicha War, Serge L. B. Nikiema, Jordan Samhi, Jacques Klein, Tegawende F. Bissyande
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18761

A Survey on Cloud-Edge-Terminal Collaborative Intelligence in AIoT Networks
Jiaqi Wu, Jing Liu, Yang Liu, Lixu Wang, Zehua Wang, Wei Chen, Zijian Tian, Richard Yu, Victor C. M. Leung
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18803

A Survey on Cloud-Edge-Terminal Collaborative Intelligence in AIoT Networks
The proliferation of Internet of things (IoT) devices in smart cities, transportation, healthcare, and industrial applications, coupled with the explosive growth of AI-driven services, has increased demands for efficient distributed computing architectures and networks, driving cloud-edge-terminal collaborative intelligence (CETCI) as a fundamental paradigm within the artificial intelligence of things (AIoT) community. With advancements in deep learning, large language models (LLMs), and edge c…

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…

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Release of A databaSe of millimeTeR ObservatioNs of Asteroids Using acT (ASTRONAUT)
Ricco C. Venterea, John Orlowski-Scherer, Nicholas Battaglia, Sigurd Naess, Steve K. Choi, Allen Foster, Joseph Golec, Bruce Patridge, Crist\'obal Sif\'on
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18300

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Release of A databaSe of millimeTeR ObservatioNs of Asteroids Using acT (ASTRONAUT)
We present A databaSe of millimeTeR ObservatioNs of Asteroids Using acT (ASTRONAUT) hosted on Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS) in the form of a public Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) bucket. This bucket is an Amazon cloud storage database containing flux measurements for a group of asteroids at millimeter (mm) wavelengths. These measurements were collected by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) from 2017 to 2021 in frequency bands centered near 90, 150, and 220 GHz. The ASTRONAUT database c…

Marlin: Efficient Coordination for Autoscaling Cloud DBMS (Extended Version)
Wenjie Hu, Guanzhou Hu, Mahesh Balakrishnan, Xiangyao Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01931 https://…

Marlin: Efficient Coordination for Autoscaling Cloud DBMS (Extended Version)
Modern cloud databases are shifting from converged architectures to storage disaggregation, enabling independent scaling and billing of compute and storage. However, cloud databases still rely on external, converged coordination services (e.g., ZooKeeper) for their control planes. These services are effectively lightweight databases optimized for low-volume metadata. As the control plane scales in the cloud, this approach faces similar limitations as converged databases did before storage disag…

A User-centric Kubernetes-based Architecture for Green Cloud Computing
Matteo Zanotto, Leonardo Vicentini, Redi Vreto, Francesco Lumpp, Diego Braga, Sandro Fiore
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13325

A User-centric Kubernetes-based Architecture for Green Cloud Computing
To meet the increasing demand for cloud computing services, the scale and number of data centers keeps increasing worldwide. This growth comes at the cost of increased electricity consumption, which directly correlates to CO2 emissions, the main driver of climate change. As such, researching ways to reduce cloud computing emissions is more relevant than ever. However, although cloud providers are reportedly already working near optimal power efficiency, they fail in providing precise sustainabi…

I have decided to block mastodon.cloud and would recommend that you consider doing the same.
If you know anyone who currently uses this instance, it may be advisable to encourage them to migrate to another one.
You can read more about the reasoning here: https://social.linux.pizza…

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.

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

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

CBP-Tuning: Efficient Local Customization for Black-box Large Language Models
Jiaxuan Zhao, Naibin Gu, Yuchen Feng, Xiyu Liu, Peng Fu, Zheng Lin, Weiping Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12112

CBP-Tuning: Efficient Local Customization for Black-box Large Language Models
The high costs of customizing large language models (LLMs) fundamentally limit their adaptability to user-specific needs. Consequently, LLMs are increasingly offered as cloud-based services, a paradigm that introduces critical limitations: providers struggle to support personalized customization at scale, while users face privacy risks when exposing sensitive data. To address this dual challenge, we propose Customized Black-box Prompt Tuning (CBP-Tuning), a novel framework that facilitates effi…

Google will provide Gemini for Government to US federal agencies at $0.47 per agency through 2026; OpenAI and Anthropic are offering their products for $1/year (Julia Shapero/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5463428-google-ai-cloud-services-fede…

This morning I was pissed to discover the manufacturer of my cleaning robot went bankrupt, shut down their cloud services and rendered their mobile app unusable, nearly bricking the whole device.
Fortunately there's another app that still does the job.
God dammit tho, why can't we have nice offline-first things any more.

Application Management in C-ITS: Orchestrating Demand-Driven Deployments and Reconfigurations
Lukas Zanger, Bastian Lampe, Lennart Reiher, Lutz Eckstein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18793

Application Management in C-ITS: Orchestrating Demand-Driven Deployments and Reconfigurations
Vehicles are becoming increasingly automated and interconnected, enabling the formation of cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS) and the use of offboard services. As a result, cloud-native techniques, such as microservices and container orchestration, play an increasingly important role in their operation. However, orchestrating applications in a large-scale C-ITS poses unique challenges due to the dynamic nature of the environment and the need for efficient resource utilization. In…

Databelt: A Continuous Data Path for Serverless Workflows in the 3D Compute Continuum
Cynthia Marcelino, Leonard Guelmino, Thomas Pusztai, Stefan Nastic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.15351

Databelt: A Continuous Data Path for Serverless Workflows in the 3D Compute Continuum
Typically, serverless functions rely on remote storage services for managing state, which can result in increased latency and network communication overhead. In a dynamic environment such as the 3D (Edge-Cloud-Space) Compute Continuum, serverless functions face additional challenges due to frequent changes in network topology. As satellites move in and out of the range of ground stations, functions must make multiple hops to access cloud services, leading to high-latency state access and unnece…

I continue to be amazed that anyone uses Amazon AWS, or Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Services. Only someone who's very happy to completely lock their business into a 3rd party proprietary stack they don't control, and loves paying 20x (2000%!) more than reasonable commodity infrastructure rates would do so. I'm amazed that these businesses are even viable. Just goes to show how much flab most corporations have. They're ripe for disruption and displacement.

Schrodinger's Toolbox: Exploring the Quantum Rowhammer Attack
Devon Campbell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06318 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06318

Schrodinger's Toolbox: Exploring the Quantum Rowhammer Attack
Residual cross-talk in superconducting qubit devices creates a security vulnerability for emerging quantum cloud services. We demonstrate a Clifford-only Quantum Rowhammer attack-using just X and CNOT gates-that injects faults on IBM's 127-qubit Eagle processors without requiring pulse-level access. Experiments show that targeted hammering induces localized errors confined to the attack cycle and primarily manifests as phase noise, as confirmed by near 50% flip rates under Hadamard-basis probin…

Online Matching via Reinforcement Learning: An Expert Policy Orchestration Strategy
Chiara Mignacco, Matthieu Jonckheere, Gilles Stoltz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06515 https://…

Online Matching via Reinforcement Learning: An Expert Policy Orchestration Strategy
Online matching problems arise in many complex systems, from cloud services and online marketplaces to organ exchange networks, where timely, principled decisions are critical for maintaining high system performance. Traditional heuristics in these settings are simple and interpretable but typically tailored to specific operating regimes, which can lead to inefficiencies when conditions change. We propose a reinforcement learning (RL) approach that learns to orchestrate a set of such expert pol…

Optimizing Cloud-native Services with SAGA: A Service Affinity Graph-based Approach
Hai Dinh-Tuan, Franz Florian Six
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05790 https://

Optimizing Cloud-native Services with SAGA: A Service Affinity Graph-based Approach
Modern software architectures are characterized by their cloud-native, modular, and microservice-based designs. While these systems are known for their efficiency, they also face complex challenges in service optimization, especially in maintaining end-to-end quality of service across dynamically distributed services. This paper introduces a novel approach using the concept of Service Affinity to address this challenge. The proposed method, termed Service Affinity Graph-based Approach, employs …

Privacy-Preserving Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search on High-Dimensional Data
Yingfan Liu, Yandi Zhang, Jiadong Xie, Hui Li, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Jiangtao Cui
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10373

Privacy-Preserving Approximate Nearest Neighbor Search on High-Dimensional Data
In the era of cloud computing and AI, data owners outsource ubiquitous vectors to the cloud, which furnish approximate $k$-nearest neighbors ($k$-ANNS) services to users. To protect data privacy against the untrusted server, privacy-preserving $k$-ANNS (PP-ANNS) on vectors has been a fundamental and urgent problem. However, existing PP-ANNS solutions fall short of meeting the requirements of data privacy, efficiency, accuracy, and minimal user involvement concurrently. To tackle this challenge,…

SRWToolkit: An Open Source Wizard of Oz Toolkit to Create Social Robotic Avatars
Atikkhan Faridkhan Nilgar, Kristof Van Laerhoven, Ayub Kinoti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04356 h…

SRWToolkit: An Open Source Wizard of Oz Toolkit to Create Social Robotic Avatars
We present SRWToolkit, an open-source Wizard of Oz toolkit designed to facilitate the rapid prototyping of social robotic avatars powered by local large language models (LLMs). Our web-based toolkit enables multimodal interaction through text input, button-activated speech, and wake-word command. The toolkit offers real-time configuration of avatar appearance, behavior, language, and voice via an intuitive control panel. In contrast to prior works that rely on cloud-based LLM services, SRWToolk…

ObCLIP: Oblivious CLoud-Device Hybrid Image Generation with Privacy Preservation
Haoqi Wu, Wei Dai, Ming Xu, Li Wang, Qiang Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04153 https://

ObCLIP: Oblivious CLoud-Device Hybrid Image Generation with Privacy Preservation
Diffusion Models have gained significant popularity due to their remarkable capabilities in image generation, albeit at the cost of intensive computation requirement. Meanwhile, despite their widespread deployment in inference services such as Midjourney, concerns about the potential leakage of sensitive information in uploaded user prompts have arisen. Existing solutions either lack rigorous privacy guarantees or fail to strike an effective balance between utility and efficiency. To bridge thi…

A Non-Intrusive Framework for Deferred Integration of Cloud Patterns in Energy-Efficient Data-Sharing Pipelines
Sepideh Masoudi, Mark Edward Michael Daly, Jannis Kiesel, Stefan Tai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12354

A Non-Intrusive Framework for Deferred Integration of Cloud Patterns in Energy-Efficient Data-Sharing Pipelines
As data mesh architectures gain traction in federated environments, organizations are increasingly building consumer-specific data-sharing pipelines using modular, cloud-native transformation services. Prior work has shown that structuring these pipelines with reusable transformation stages enhances both scalability and energy efficiency. However, integrating traditional cloud design patterns into such pipelines poses a challenge: predefining and embedding patterns can compromise modularity, re…

Indian IT services company Infosys agrees to take a 75% stake in Versent Group, a cloud services provider wholly owned by Australia's Telstra Group, for ~$153M (Hritam Mukherjee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel

Toward Energy and Location-Aware Resource Allocation in Next Generation Networks
Mandar Datar (CEA-LETI), Mattia Merluzzi (CEA-LETI)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05109 https://

Toward Energy and Location-Aware Resource Allocation in Next Generation Networks
Wireless networks are evolving from radio resource providers to complex systems that also involve computing, with the latter being distributed across edge and cloud facilities. Also, their optimization is shifting more and more from a performance to a value-oriented paradigm. The two aspects shall be balanced continuously, to maximize the utilities of Services Providers (SPs), users quality of experience and fairness, while meeting global constraints in terms of energy consumption and carbon fo…

Google hires NBA star Stephen Curry as a "performance advisor" for its Health, Pixel, and Cloud products, including testing Fitbit's new personal health coach (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/762146/google-pixel-stephen-curry…

Google signs Stephen Curry to pitch its Pixel, health, and AI gear
Google has brought NBA star Stephen Curry on board to help shape up the company’s hardware, features, and AI services.

GreenLLM: SLO-Aware Dynamic Frequency Scaling for Energy-Efficient LLM Serving
Qunyou Liu, Darong Huang, Marina Zapater, David Atienza
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.16449 https://

GreenLLM: SLO-Aware Dynamic Frequency Scaling for Energy-Efficient LLM Serving
Large Language Models (LLMs) are becoming the backbone of modern cloud services, yet their inference costs are dominated by GPU energy. Unlike traditional GPU workloads, LLM inference has two stages with different characteristics: the prefill phase, which is latency sensitive and scales quadratically with prompt length, and the decode phase, which progresses token by token with unpredictable length. Current GPU power governors (for example, NVIDIA's default) overlook this asymmetry and treat bo…

REACH: Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Microservice Rescheduling in the Cloud-Edge Continuum
Xu Bai, Muhammed Tawfiqul Islam, Rajkumar Buyya, Adel N. Toosi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06675

REACH: Reinforcement Learning for Adaptive Microservice Rescheduling in the Cloud-Edge Continuum
Cloud computing, despite its advantages in scalability, may not always fully satisfy the low-latency demands of emerging latency-sensitive pervasive applications. The cloud-edge continuum addresses this by integrating the responsiveness of edge resources with cloud scalability. Microservice Architecture (MSA) characterized by modular, loosely coupled services, aligns effectively with this continuum. However, the heterogeneous and dynamic computing resource poses significant challenges to the op…

Czech cyber agency warns against using services and products that send data to China https://therecord.media/czech-nukib-warns-against-products-sending-data-china

Cross-Service Token: Finding Attacks in 5G Core Networks
Anqi Chen, Riccardo Preatoni, Alessandro Brighente, Mauro Conti, Cristina Nita-Rotaru
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08992 h…

Cross-Service Token: Finding Attacks in 5G Core Networks
5G marks a major departure from previous cellular architectures, by transitioning from a monolithic design of the core network to a Service-Based Architecture (SBA) where services are modularized as Network Functions (NFs) which communicate with each other via standard-defined HTTP-based APIs called Service-Based Interfaces (SBIs). These NFs are deployed in private and public cloud infrastructure, and an access control framework based on OAuth restricts how they communicate with each other and …

Sources: Lambda is in talks for a funding round that could value the cloud services company between $4B and $5B ahead of a potential IPO by the end of 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-14/nvidia-b…

An Analysis of HPC and Edge Architectures in the Cloud
Steven Santillan, Cristina L. Abad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01494 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.01494…

An Analysis of HPC and Edge Architectures in the Cloud
We analyze a recently published dataset of 396 real-world cloud architectures deployed on AWS, from companies belonging to a wide range of industries. From this dataset, we identify those architectures that contain HPC or edge components and characterize their designs. Specifically, we investigate the prevalence and interplay of AWS services within these architectures, examine the types of storage systems employed, assess architectural complexity and the use of machine learning services, discus…

Efficient Fault Localization in a Cloud Stack Using End-to-End Application Service Topology
Dhanya R Mathews, Mudit Verma, Pooja Aggarwal, J. Lakshmi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.05511

Efficient Fault Localization in a Cloud Stack Using End-to-End Application Service Topology
Cloud application services are distributed in nature and have components across the stack working together to deliver the experience to end users. The wide adoption of microservice architecture exacerbates failure management due to increased service components. To be effective, the strategies to enhance the application service resilience need to be autonomous and developed at the service's granularity, considering its end-to-end components. However, the massive amount of observability data gene…

Quality-of-Service Aware LLM Routing for Edge Computing with Multiple Experts
Jin Yang, Qiong Wu, Zhiying Feng, Zhi Zhou, Deke Guo, Xu Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00234 http…

Quality-of-Service Aware LLM Routing for Edge Computing with Multiple Experts
Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, leading to a significant increase in user demand for LLM services. However, cloud-based LLM services often suffer from high latency, unstable responsiveness, and privacy concerns. Therefore, multiple LLMs are usually deployed at the network edge to boost real-time responsiveness and protect data privacy, particularly for many emerging smart mobile and IoT applications. Given the varying response quality and latency of LLM s…

Auditing Pay-Per-Token in Large Language Models
Ander Artola Velasco, Stratis Tsirtsis, Manuel Gomez-Rodriguez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05181 https://arx…

Auditing Pay-Per-Token in Large Language Models
Millions of users rely on a market of cloud-based services to obtain access to state-of-the-art large language models. However, it has been very recently shown that the de facto pay-per-token pricing mechanism used by providers creates a financial incentive for them to strategize and misreport the (number of) tokens a model used to generate an output. In this paper, we develop an auditing framework based on martingale theory that enables a trusted third-party auditor who sequentially queries a …

Over-the-Top Resource Broker System for Split Computing: An Approach to Distribute Cloud Computing Infrastructure
Ingo Friese, Jochen Klaffer, Mandy Galkow-Schneider, Sergiy Melnyk, Qiuheng Zhou, Hans Dieter Schotten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07744

Over-the-Top Resource Broker System for Split Computing: An Approach to Distribute Cloud Computing Infrastructure
6G network architectures will usher in a wave of innovative services and capabilities, introducing concepts like split computing and dynamic processing nodes. This implicates a paradigm where accessing resources seamlessly aligns with diverse processing node characteristics, ensuring a uniform interface. In this landscape, the identity of the operator becomes inconsequential, paving the way for a collaborative ecosystem where multiple providers contribute to a shared pool of resources. At the c…

TPM-Based Continuous Remote Attestation and Integrity Verification for 5G VNFs on Kubernetes
Al Nahian Bin Emran, Rajendra Upadhyay, Rajendra Paudyal, Lisa Donnan, Duminda Wijesekera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03219

TPM-Based Continuous Remote Attestation and Integrity Verification for 5G VNFs on Kubernetes
In the rapidly evolving landscape of 5G technology, the adoption of cloud-based infrastructure for the deployment of 5G services has become increasingly common. Using a service-based architecture, critical 5G components, such as the Access and Mobility Management Function (AMF), Session Management Function (SMF), and User Plane Function (UPF), now run as containerized pods on Kubernetes clusters. Although this approach improves scalability, flexibility, and resilience, it also introduces new se…

Adaptive t Design Dummy-Gate Obfuscation for Cryogenic Scale Enforcement
Samuel Punch, Krishnendu Guha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.00812 https://arxiv.org/p…

Adaptive t Design Dummy-Gate Obfuscation for Cryogenic Scale Enforcement
Cloud quantum services can reveal circuit structure and timing through scheduler metadata, latency patterns, and co-tenant interference. We introduce NADGO (Noise-Adaptive Dummy-Gate Obfuscation), a scheduling and obfuscation stack that enforces operational privacy for gate-model workloads by applying per-interval limits on observable information leakage. To support confidentiality and fair multi-tenancy, operators require a method to audit compliance at acceptable overheads. NADGO combines: (i…

Practical and Private Hybrid ML Inference with Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Sayan Biswas, Philippe Chartier, Akash Dhasade, Tom Jurien, David Kerriou, Anne-Marie Kerrmarec, Mohammed Lemou, Franklin Tranie, Martijn de Vos, Milos Vujasinovic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01253

Practical and Private Hybrid ML Inference with Fully Homomorphic Encryption
In contemporary cloud-based services, protecting users' sensitive data and ensuring the confidentiality of the server's model are critical. Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) enables inference directly on encrypted inputs, but its practicality is hindered by expensive bootstrapping and inefficient approximations of non-linear activations. We introduce Safhire, a hybrid inference framework that executes linear layers under encryption on the server while offloading non-linearities to the client i…

SATER: A Self-Aware and Token-Efficient Approach to Routing and Cascading
Yuanzhe Shen, Yide Liu, Zisu Huang, Ruicheng Yin, Xiaoqing Zheng, Xuanjing Huang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05164

SATER: A Self-Aware and Token-Efficient Approach to Routing and Cascading
Large language models (LLMs) demonstrate remarkable performance across diverse tasks, yet their effectiveness frequently depends on costly commercial APIs or cloud services. Model selection thus entails a critical trade-off between performance and cost: high-performing LLMs typically incur substantial expenses, whereas budget-friendly small language models (SLMs) are constrained by limited capabilities. Current research primarily proposes two routing strategies: pre-generation routing and casca…