Cloud

Architecture, costs, migration, resilience and cloud governance explained for IT managers and executives.

23 August 2026 · 2-3 min

Alibaba prepares 10,000 million capital increase to finance its AI strategy

Alibaba announced plans to raise around 10,000 million dollars through a share placement in Hong Kong to dedicate funds to expanding artificial intelligence capabilities, from infrastructure to models.

20 August 2026 · 2-3 min

Brazil promotes two major supercomputing and AI projects

Brazil announced investments in supercomputing and AI infrastructure with the participation of US and Chinese providers to increase domestic capacity and develop new services.

20 August 2026 · 2-3 min

Alibaba accelerates infrastructure spending as its AI cloud business grows

Alibaba reported growth in cloud services and artificial intelligence while increasing investment in data centres, chips, and proprietary models, accepting higher pressure on short-term profits.

19 August 2026 · 2-3 min

Cloud Security by Design: securing the cloud before deploying the first resource

Organizations are shifting security controls towards design and automation to avoid remediating configurations after deployment.

19 August 2026 · 2-3 min

European AI data centres are moving away from large cities in search of energy and land

Reuters reported that new European hyperscale projects were seeking locations away from traditional hubs to find land, energy, and grid connections with higher availability.

17 August 2026 · 2-3 min

Nvidia backs a massive OpenAI data centre in Ohio

Nvidia agreed to provide investment and guarantees linked to a major OpenAI data centre project in Ohio developed with SB Energy, reflecting the financial scale of artificial intelligence infrastructure.

4 July 2026 · 2-3 min

Migrating to the cloud is no longer about moving servers: the focus is on modernising with insight

Businesses are reviewing their migrations to avoid transferring the same limitations and costs they had in traditional infrastructure to the cloud.

10 June 2026 · 2-3 min

Oracle drastically increases spending to compete in cloud and AI

Oracle anticipated a sharp increase in capital expenditure to expand data centres destined for large AI clients, amidst intense competition between infrastructure providers.

30 May 2026 · 2-3 min

Edge computing integrates with the cloud to process data closer to the business

Industry, retail and distributed environments combine local processing and cloud services to gain speed and resilience.

19 May 2026 · 2-3 min

Confidential Computing strengthens data protection while being processed

Encryption already protects data at rest and in transit; confidential computing aims to add protection during processing.

19 May 2026 · 2-3 min

Google and Blackstone create a cloud company to expand access to TPUs

Google and Blackstone announced an AI cloud infrastructure initiative that would combine investment in data centres with access to Google’s TPU chips under a compute-as-a-service model.

29 April 2026 · 2-3 min

AWS grows by 28% driven by enterprise AI demand

AWS reported a 28% revenue growth during the first quarter of 2026, exceeding market expectations with strong demand for AI-related infrastructure and services.

29 April 2026 · 2-3 min

Microsoft forecasts further Azure growth and increases infrastructure investment

Microsoft anticipated Azure growth of nearly 40% and continued to increase spending on data centres, chips, and artificial intelligence infrastructure.

11 April 2026 · 2-3 min

Kubernetes matures, and so do its security controls

Containers are already part of critical systems and companies are reinforcing identity, secrets, images, and cluster configuration.

9 April 2026 · 2-3 min

Amazon states that its AWS AI services exceed a $15,000 million annual run rate

Andy Jassy explained that AWS AI services had reached an annual revenue run rate exceeding $15,000 million and also highlighted the growth of proprietary chips such as Trainium and Graviton.

26 March 2026 · 2-3 min

Big Tech investment in AI hits energy and construction limits

Reuters Breakingviews analysed how Amazon, Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta could allocate around $630,000 million to AI infrastructure by 2026 and yet still face limits in power, construction, equipment and cooling.

19 March 2026 · 2-3 min

Google agrees to reduce data centre consumption during electricity demand peaks

Google has expanded agreements with electricity companies to temporarily reduce data centre consumption during peak demand periods, in a context where energy has become a bottleneck for AI expansion.

19 March 2026 · 2-3 min

European cloud sector calls for action against Broadcom changes to VMware

The CISPE association called on European regulators for measures against Broadcom changes regarding VMware and cloud providers, reigniting the debate over licensing, competition and dependence on virtualisation technologies.

4 March 2026 · 2-3 min

Big tech firms commit to bearing the electricity costs of new data centres

Google, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon and other companies signed a commitment to assume costs associated with new power generation linked to their data centres, amidst surging AI demand.

3 March 2026 · 2-3 min

Multi-cloud governance becomes a priority to avoid an uncontrollable cloud

More providers offer flexibility, but they also multiply identities, permissions, costs, and configurations that must be governed.

18 February 2026 · 2-3 min

Disaster recovery: the cloud drives faster and more measurable plans

Disaster recovery is evolving from theoretical documents into automated environments that can be tested more frequently.

6 February 2026 · 2-3 min

Amazon increases its projected investment to approximately 200,000 million to accelerate AI and infrastructure

Amazon projected a sharp increase in capital expenditure for 2026, up to around 200,000 million dollars, primarily to expand AI and AWS infrastructure.

3 February 2026 · 2-3 min

Google Cloud and Liberty Global sign a five-year alliance in AI, network, and cybersecurity

Google Cloud and Liberty Global announced a partnership to deploy Gemini models and cloud tools across European operations, including automation, reliability, network security and new services.

28 January 2026 · 2-3 min

Microsoft ramps up AI investment as Azure maintains strong growth

Microsoft reported record spending on AI infrastructure and Azure growth near 39% for the quarter.

28 December 2025 · 2-3 min

FinOps and security are starting to speak the same language in the cloud

Optimising cloud spend is no longer just about switching off resources: configuration, access control, and security also influence the cost.

5 December 2025 · 2-3 min

Data sovereignty enters cloud architecture decisions

Location, control, encryption, and jurisdiction are increasingly important when choosing where to host business information and services.

21 November 2025 · 2-3 min

Foxconn and Nvidia prepare a major supercomputing cluster in Taiwan

Foxconn announced that a supercomputing centre built with Nvidia would be ready during the first half of 2026.

3 November 2025 · 2-3 min

OpenAI signs a $38 billion agreement with Amazon to use AWS

OpenAI signed a seven-year agreement valued at $38,000 million to purchase cloud capacity from Amazon Web Services, strengthening the diversification of its computing infrastructure.

20 October 2025 · 2-3 min

An AWS outage leaves applications and businesses worldwide out of service

Amazon Web Services suffered a major outage that impacted multiple applications and services dependent on its infrastructure.

30 July 2025 · 2-3 min

Azure exceeds $75,000 million in annual revenue

Microsoft revealed that Azure had surpassed $75,000 million in annual revenue as the cloud business maintained strong growth driven by AI demand and enterprise services.

22 May 2025 · 2-3 min

Stargate UAE prepares a major AI data centre in Abu Dhabi

Stargate UAE announced a major artificial intelligence data centre complex in Abu Dhabi, with a first phase scheduled for 2026 and the involvement of companies such as G42, OpenAI, Oracle, Nvidia, Cisco and SoftBank.

30 April 2025 · 2-3 min

Azure maintains strong growth and Microsoft reinforces its cloud commitment

Microsoft reported Azure results above expectations and anticipated solid growth, with demand for AI and cloud services as significant drivers.

28 March 2025 · 2-3 min

CoreWeave makes market debut, pricing the surge in AI-specialised cloud

CoreWeave, a cloud infrastructure provider focused on AI-intensive workloads and backed by Nvidia, set its IPO at $40 per share after reducing the size of the deal.

21 January 2025 · 2-3 min

Stargate proposes up to 500,000 million dollars in AI infrastructure

OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle announced Stargate, an initiative to build artificial intelligence infrastructure in the United States with a potential investment of up to 500,000 million dollars over several years.

3 January 2025 · 2-3 min

Microsoft plans to invest $80,000 million in data centres for AI

Microsoft announced plans to invest approximately $80,000 million during its 2025 fiscal year in data centres capable of training AI models and running cloud applications and services.

30 October 2024 · 2-3 min

Google Cloud accelerates with artificial intelligence demand

Alphabet reported strong growth for Google Cloud in the third quarter of 2024.

25 September 2024 · 2-3 min

Google files EU complaint over Microsoft cloud licensing practices

Google filed a complaint with the European Commission against certain Microsoft practices related to software licensing and Azure, alleging that they could hinder the transfer of workloads to rival cloud providers.

1 May 2024 · 2-3 min

AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud grow again driven by AI

Reuters highlighted that AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud had reported higher-than-expected growth, coinciding with a recovery in enterprise cloud spending and increased adoption of artificial intelligence services.

9 April 2024 · 2-3 min

Microsoft announces $2.9 billion for cloud and AI in Japan

Microsoft announced a 2.9 billion dollar investment over two years to expand artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure in Japan.

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