cloud-infrastructure

A maintenance-system bug stripped IP routes from Microsoft's West US datacenter on July 23, knocking out Teams, SharePoint, and Azure services for about five hours.

A CloudFront routing-configuration failure tied to VPC Origins triggered widespread 5xx errors on July 16, hitting Hugging Face and the UK National Lottery before AWS restored service.

Lightstorm, Microsoft, Singtel, and Tata Communications will build the 3,600 km I-2SEA submarine cable linking India's AI data centers to Singapore and Malaysia by Q4 2029.

TeraWulf will lease Anthropic a 401 MW AI campus in Hawesville, Kentucky, for about $19 billion over 20 years, while selling its Abernathy Joint Venture stake to Fluidstack.

The GPU cloud platform Runpod raised $100 million in a Summit Partners-led Series A that values it at $1 billion, saying it now serves more than one million AI developers.

Together AI raised an $800 million Series C led by Aramco Ventures at an $8.3 billion valuation, more than doubling its worth in about 16 months as enterprises shift toward cheaper open-source AI models.

Oracle posted record Q4 FY2026 results with OCI revenue up 93% and a $638 billion order backlog, yet shares fell as capital spending and financing plans rattled investors.

Snowflake's $6 billion, five-year AWS commitment is 2.4 times its 2023 deal, leaning on Graviton CPUs and GPU-accelerated EC2 to power agentic AI workloads.

AWS launched the next-generation OpenSearch Serverless on May 28, decoupling compute from storage to hit true scale-to-zero and 20x faster autoscaling for bursty agentic workloads.

AWS released ExtendDB v0.1 on May 20, an Apache 2.0 adapter implementing the DynamoDB wire protocol on pluggable backends including PostgreSQL and Apache Cassandra, targeting local dev, CI/CD, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

Google announced a downloadable edition of Cloud Spanner that runs on-premises, on rival clouds, or on a laptop, dismantling a dependency on proprietary infrastructure that its engineers once thought impossible to remove.

OpenTofu v1.12.0 lands with variable-driven prevent_destroy, a destroy=false lifecycle flag, and dual output modes — features the Terraform tracker left open since 2016.