Cloud Infrastructure Month
During Cloud Infrastructure Month, The Register will ascend the layers of modern cloud architectures, evaluating the engineering marvels and challenges at play. We'll dissect the techical innards from IaaS to PaaS and the hardware that backs it all up, with a lens on security.
UK datacenter developers turn to gas rather than wait for grid power for builds
Hang on, what happened to gov.UK's bitbarn-favoring Industrial Strategy?
Cloud Infrastructure Month29 Aug 2025 |46
Cloud computing has become so normal, it's invisible
Feature Maybe someday we'll just call it 'data processing' again
Cloud Infrastructure Month29 Aug 2025 |9
'It isn't designed to solve privacy concerns,' Grafana CTO says of Bring Your Own Cloud
INTERVIEW Think BYOC will solve all your sovereignty and privacy worries? You might be missing the point
Cloud Infrastructure Month28 Aug 2025 |
Solo.io boss: I was wrong, I made mistakes – and that made me a better CEO
Interview Idit Levine on going from startup to a billion-dollar valuation
Cloud Infrastructure Month28 Aug 2025 |9
Microsoft can't guarantee data sovereignty – OVHcloud says 'We told you so'
Interview French provider seizes on Redmond's admission that US law could override local protections
Cloud Infrastructure Month27 Aug 2025 |62
Datacenters face rising thirst as Europe dries up
Analysts warn cooling demands could outstrip supplies as heatwaves intensify
Cloud Infrastructure Month27 Aug 2025 |34
Azure apparatchik shows custom silicon keeping everything locked down
Hot Chips From hardware security chips and trusted execution pipelines to open source Root of Trust modules
Cloud Infrastructure Month26 Aug 2025 |7
Google games numbers to make AI look less thirsty
Datacenters' drinking habit exaggerated, claims report comparing apples to oranges
Cloud Infrastructure Month22 Aug 2025 |10
How low can colo go, asks JLL, as datacenter vacancy rates near zero
$1 trillion of new deployment needed by 2030
Cloud Infrastructure Month19 Aug 2025 |7
Ethernet switch vendors like Cisco are riding high on AI network economics
When one GPU translates into three to five of the fastest switch ports money can buy, can you blame them?
Cloud Infrastructure Month15 Aug 2025 |1
Amazon's $100B DC spend similar to entire Costa Rica GDP
Microsoft cap-ex larger than output of Uganda and Google trumps Slovenia... all in the name of AI
Cloud Infrastructure Month14 Aug 2025 |8
CoreWeave CFO: $25B raised in debt and equity in 18 months
Reliant on two mega customers? Who says GPU-for-rent kingpin is a not a sustainable biz model?
Cloud Infrastructure Month13 Aug 2025 |5
Defra doubles contract value for cloud and DC services
Legacy tech for nation's farmers must migrate ... contract swells to £245M
Cloud Infrastructure Month12 Aug 2025 |6
News from a possible future: ‘Rampant jellyfish cause AI outage by taking datacenter offline'
Don’t laugh, a French nuclear power plant just shut down for a while after invertebrates overwhelmed its intakes
Cloud Infrastructure Month12 Aug 2025 |49
Sudden spike in demand causes issues in Azure East US region
'Although the incident has been marked resolved, in practice it lingers,' admin tells us
Cloud Infrastructure Month08 Aug 2025 |2
$500 billion Stargate AI infrastructure project struggles to get off the drawing board
Backer SoftBank isn't fussed, is excited that Arm will provide half of new cloudy CPUs this year
Cloud Infrastructure Month08 Aug 2025 |9
The plan to make all networks optical is about to take two big steps forward
'IOWN' backers think it can replace the PCI bus, reinvent servers, and rewire motherboards
Cloud Infrastructure Month07 Aug 2025 |14
AWS wiped my account of 10 years, says open source dev
Updated Cloud giant erased decade of work – denies it was due to botched dry run of user-pruning tool
Cloud Infrastructure Month06 Aug 2025 |80
AMD’s AI datacenter revenue dived due to US ban on China GPU exports
Worry not, the rest of the business is EPYC and demand is RYZEN
Cloud Infrastructure Month06 Aug 2025 |
Broadcom’s Jericho4 ASICs just opened the door to multi-datacenter AI training
Forget building massive super clusters. Cobble them together from existing datacenters instead
Cloud Infrastructure Month06 Aug 2025 |1
Popular
ISPs more likely to throttle netizens who connect through carrier-grade NAT: Cloudflare
When operators see danger, innocent users are dragged down along with bad actors
Snap out of it: Canonical on Flatpak friction, Core Desktop, and the future of Ubuntu
Ubuntu Summit Jon Seager, VP of Engineering, talks exclusively to The Reg
‘ERP down for emergency maintenance’ was code for ‘You deleted what?’
Who, Me? One SQL slip-up is survivable. Not learning from the first mess meant change
Debian demands Rust or rust in peace for legacy ports
Memory safety trumps retro computing: Alpha, PA-RISC, m68k, SH4 face the chop in 2026
Attackers targeting unpatched Cisco kit notice malware implant removal, install it again
Infosec in brief PLUS: Cyber-exec admits selling secrets to Russia; LastPass isn't checking to see if you're dead; Nation-state backed Windows malware; and more
The race to shore up Europe’s power grids against cyberattacks and sabotage
Feature Ukraine first to demo open source security platform to isolate incidents, stop lateral movement
Network operator ponders building a new submarine cable – on land
It’s less bonkers than it sounds given the challenges of wiring Africa
From Intel to the infinite, Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world
Opinion Taking belief in LLMs very literally indeed
Google Cloud suspended customer's account three times, for three different reasons
Experience leads company boss to decide 'I cannot rely on having a Google account for production use cases'
Pop!_OS deejays prepare to release holiday remix along with Cosmic v 1.0
Ubuntu Summit Christmas is coming, the GNOME is getting fat… please put a penny in the old red hat?
STORIES
Tony Blair Institute: UK needs bit barns to lead in AI deployment, not training
Let US and China compete in the AI development arms race, says former Brit PM's non-profit org
Cloud Infrastructure Month04 Aug 2025 |62
When hyperscalers can’t safeguard one nation’s data from another, dark clouds are ahead
Opinion If it’s not on-prem, it’s on the menu
Cloud Infrastructure Month04 Aug 2025 |41
Capacity planning a rising concern for datacenter operators as AI grows
New Uptime survey flags cost, power, outages
Cloud Infrastructure Month03 Aug 2025 |3
Oracle offers workaround to Windows boot issue in the cloud instead of fix
Kludge causing production outages
Cloud Infrastructure Month01 Aug 2025 |6
Not so SaaSy now: Oracle sugars BYOL deals as AWS database tie-in goes live
Big Red incentivizes perpetual licenses with 76% savings as it parks racks in hyperscaler datacenters
Cloud Infrastructure Month18 Jul 2025 |2
VMware reboots its partner program again – and it looks like smaller players are out
Exclusive Second major change in 18 months will be most unwelcome for many - as will critical flaws announced today
Cloud Infrastructure Month16 Jul 2025 |49
Microsoft offers EU cloud providers fresh commercial terms, staves off risk of litigation
Exclusive Agreement or otherwise expected from CISPE top brass before August
Cloud Infrastructure Month11 Jul 2025 |4
Feds brag about hefty Oracle discount – licensing experts smell a lock-in
If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is
Cloud Infrastructure Month08 Jul 2025 |12
Biting the hand that feeds IT
