infrastructure

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.

The community-maintained Ingress NGINX controller goes read-only in March 2026. With no future security patches and four new CVEs disclosed in February, organizations running roughly half of all Kubernetes ingress traffic must now choose between Gateway API and alternative controllers.

Cisco and Qunnect achieved first metro-scale quantum entanglement swapping over 17.6 km of commercial NYC fiber, surpassing previous benchmarks by 10,000x.

Kubernetes 1.35 adds in-place pod-wide restarts and other scheduling and scaling updates as operators report broader production adoption for AI workloads.