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Google and DDN unveiled a 10x throughput jump for Managed Lustre at Cloud Next 2026, adding a $0.06/GB-month Dynamic tier and showing 75% inference gains via KV-cache sharing.

A cooling system failure in a single Northern Virginia availability zone triggered a 20-hour AWS outage that physically damaged EC2 and EBS hardware and brought down core trading services at Coinbase.

Amazon Aurora Serverless platform version 4 scales 45% faster and delivers up to 30% better throughput at no extra cost, targeting agentic AI workloads.

Cloudflare detailed the custom infrastructure behind its Workers AI expansion to host models like Kimi K2.5, including a Rust-based inference engine and a lossless weight-compression system.

Nvidia receives a five-year option on 30 million IREN shares at $70 each while paying IREN $3.4 billion over five years for Blackwell cloud capacity at Childress, Texas.

Cloudflare's Gen 13 platform pairs AMD EPYC 9965 chips with FL2, a Rust rewrite of its NGINX-based proxy, doubling edge throughput while trading L3 cache for cores.

AWS launched OpenAI's frontier models, Codex, and Bedrock Managed Agents in limited preview on April 28, 2026, one day after Microsoft's seven-year exclusivity over OpenAI's IP was rewritten to a non-exclusive license through 2032.

Meta will deploy tens of millions of AWS Graviton cores to power CPU-intensive agentic AI workloads in a multiyear, multibillion-dollar partnership that AWS describes as one of its largest Graviton commitments to date and that extends Meta's push to diversify beyond Nvidia.

Brussels awarded a six-year framework contract for sovereign cloud services to Post Telecom, STACKIT, Scaleway, and Proximus, using a new eight-criteria sovereignty framework that allows Google Cloud to participate only through the Proximus-led consortium.

Eighteen months after Redis changed its license, Valkey 9.0 has reached one billion requests per second, 346 contributors, and 75 percent of surveyed Redis users eyeing migration.

Amazon launched its AWS European Sovereign Cloud in Brandenburg, Germany in January 2026 with €7.8 billion in investment and ~90 services, but legal experts warn the U.S. CLOUD Act may undermine its core sovereignty guarantees.