Hindustan Times — Technology
Data centres are straining the insurance market(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
The premiums are juicy, but the financial stakes are hard to digest
Cloud & Infrastructure
Stories tagged cloud & infrastructure.
InfoQ
Elastic Beanstalk Adds Cluster Mode, Running Applications on Shared EKS Clusters(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
AWS has added Cluster Mode to Elastic Beanstalk, running applications on EKS clusters the service creates and operates. Clusters are assigned by subnet set and cannot be changed afterward, direct cluster access is service-managed, and AWS recommends separate clusters for untrusted or regulated…
Europe/UK: Tech.eu / Sifted / TNW / Silicon Republic / UKTN / Computer Weekly / heise / Golem / t3n / Maddyness / FrenchWeb
heise-Angebot: iX-Workshop: Mastering Azure – Administration der Azure Cloud Services(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Lernen Sie, die grundlegenden Komponenten der Microsoft Azure Cloud zu administrieren, zu konfigurieren und zu implementieren [--] in Theorie und Praxis.
Economic Times — Tech / Technology / Startups / ETTelecom
China surveys Broadcom switch use in state data centers, FT reports(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Chinese authorities are examining Broadcom's hardware in state-controlled data centres to enhance domestic production capabilities. This initiative aims to reduce reliance on foreign technology amid increasing US-China rivalry. Reports indicate Broadcom's switches may compose 90% of the current…
Africa: TechCabal / Techpoint Africa / TechCentral / WeeTracker / Ventureburn
The new battle over the desktop(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Apple is pitching its new AI desktops to corporate buyers as a cheaper option than renting data centre capacity.
Economic Times — Tech / Technology / Startups / ETTelecom
China's Alibaba launches international data centre push(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Chinese tech giant Alibaba unveiled plans on Wednesday to expand its overseas data centres, targeting markets across Europe and the Middle East. Alibaba is targeting more than 20 gigawatts of global data centre capacity by 2032, Wu said during the firm's annual flagship conference in Hangzhou.
The Information (teasers)
Anthropic in Talks to Lease Apollo-Controlled Stream Data Centers
Anthropic is in early talks to lease up to 1 gigawatt in compute capacity from Stream Data Centers, a developer majority-owned by Apollo Global Management, which could house tensor processing units designed by Broadcom and Google, The Information reported Tuesday. Anthropic could ...
China: SCMP Tech / TechNode / Pandaily / KrASIA / Sixth Tone
Alibaba Cloud set to open new data centres in Europe next year as overseas push gains pace(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Alibaba Cloud, Alibaba Group Holding’s cloud business unit, is set to launch data centres in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands over the next 12 months, speeding up an overseas push as it seeks to win enterprise customers through its “full stack AI capabilities” spanning chips, cloud…
Docker / HashiCorp / Grafana / Datadog / Honeycomb / Fly.io
Terraform provider for Google Cloud 8.0 now generally available
The Terraform provider for Google Cloud 8.0 builds on expanded infrastructure discovery workflows, modernizes provider defaults, removes support for retired Google Cloud services, and improves consistency between Terraform configurations and Google Cloud APIs.
The Hindu — Technology / BusinessLine — Info-tech
Alibaba to add data centres in Europe, Middle East in AI push(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
The Chinese e-commerce leader will set up its first cloud regions in Turkey, Finland and the Netherlands over the next 12 months
The Information (teasers)
Anthropic in Talks for 1-Gigawatt Data Center Lease With Apollo-Backed Developer
Anthropic is in early talks to lease up to 1 gigawatt in compute capacity from a data center developer majority-owned by Apollo Global Management, part of a major effort by the AI company to reduce its reliance on cloud providers. The maker of Claude has discussed signing on as a direct tenant of…
China: SCMP Tech / TechNode / Pandaily / KrASIA / Sixth Tone
China Assembles Orbital Datacenter Pieces: In-Orbit AI, Cloud-Native Sats and 100Gbps Laser Links(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
A September 23 synthesis of recent launches and tests describes China lofting the building blocks of an orbital datacenter—on-board AI compute, cloud-native satellite software and 100 Gbps-class laser links—across several parallel programs.
Planet PostgreSQL
Mehmet Ince: Part 2/6 | Breaking the Postgres Superuser Guardrails: Attacking Security-Hardening Extensions |Systemic Risks in the Managed PostgreSQL Industry(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
It’s been a month since I published the first part of this research, and interest from the Postgres community has been higher than I expected. Most vendors I contacted were shy to respond, so the Databricks team’s blog post Collaboration makes us all stronger was one of the first examples of a…
Planet PostgreSQL
Christophe Pettus: All Your GUCs in a Row: max_pred_locks_per_transaction(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
max_pred_locks_per_transaction has the naming problem of max_locks_per_transaction, and then one of its own. Like its namesake, it is a table size quoted per backend slot, not a limit on any transaction. Unlike its namesake, most of what its table holds at any given moment belongs to transactions…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
Amazon CloudWatch Omni: AI-first observability for agents and applications
AWS announces the general availability of Amazon CloudWatch Omni, an evolution of Amazon CloudWatch. Omni is an AI-powered observability experience organized around your teams and the applications they run, so that you can observe and troubleshoot your applications and agents in one place. It…
DevOps.com / Cloud Native Now
Why Kubernetes RBAC Misconfigurations Are the Easiest Privilege Escalation You’ll Ever Find(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Ask any penetration tester which part of a Kubernetes assessment reliably produces a finding, and RBAC comes up almost every time. Not because Kubernetes’ permission model is poorly designed — it’s genuinely thorough — but because it’s flexible enough that teams misconfigure it in the same handful…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
Introducing Amazon CloudWatch Omni: collaborative AI-powered observability for your applications
Amazon CloudWatch Omni is the next evolution of CloudWatch — unified observability that brings your applications and AI agents into one reimagined experience, with auto-discovered topology, natural language queries, and AI-guided investigation powered by AWS DevOps Agent.
Semafor (filter tech)
‘Hold us accountable’ on data centers, Amazon sustainability chief says
Kara Hurst said the tech giant would seek to be more transparent about the environmental impact of its massive data center buildout.
AWS — What's New / News Blog
Billing Transfer now supports automatic billing group creation for two-level transfers
AWS Billing Transfer users can now enable the Auto-Billing Transfer Billing Group Creation, a new AWS Billing Conductor preference that eliminates the manual billing group configuration in two-level billing transfer arrangements. Designed for AWS Distributors managing billing for downstream seller…
Semafor (filter tech)
‘Fear of the unknown’ drives data center pushback, Nvidia exec says
At Semafor’s The Next 3 Billion, Nvidia’s head of sustainability pushed back against the groundswell of anti-AI sentiment that’s unfurled in the US over the last few weeks.
AWS — What's New / News Blog
OpenAI GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna are now generally available on Amazon Bedrock
Today, AWS announces the general availability of GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna from OpenAI on Amazon Bedrock. Expanding the GPT-6 family alongside Astra, these two models give teams more ways to balance intelligence, speed, and cost across every workload. Sol is the daily model for recurring complex…
Kubernetes / CNCF / Linux Foundation / Apache / OpenSSF / OSI / Eclipse
Spotlight on SIG Apps
As Kubernetes adoption has grown, the conversation has shifted beyond running containers to managing increasingly complex application lifecycles. Modern platforms support stateless web services, stateful databases, batch processing, AI workloads, and platform services. At the same time, they must…
FedScoop / StateScoop / Nextgov
Do data centers need a ‘national strategy that puts communities first’?(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
The House passed a bill to mandate that state regulators have a strategy to have large consumers pay for their own power. But plenty of work lies ahead.
Planet PostgreSQL
Christophe Pettus: The Shadow Knows(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
ClickHouse released WalShadow last week, and it does something very… brave: it replicates PostgreSQL into ClickHouse without using logical decoding at all. It reads the physical WAL stream, the same bytes a streaming replica gets, decodes heap records itself, and writes ClickHouse-native blocks. …
Planet PostgreSQL
Dimitri Fontaine: Ten years of Postgres logical replication(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
A long time ago I ran a write-heavy system on a hub and a handful of workers. Each worker took a share of the application traffic and wrote events locally. The hub owned the reference data (customers, plans, prices), pushed it down to the workers, and pulled every worker’s events back up to compute…
ServeTheHome / The Next Platform / KitGuru / HotHardware
NVIDIA Announces DSX Ready Qualification Program for Data Center Power and Cooling Hardware(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
NVIDIA this week has launched DSX Ready, a new qualification program for data center cooling and power hardware, for use with constructing AI data centers based on NVIDIA's DSX AI factory blueprint The post NVIDIA Announces DSX Ready Qualification Program for Data Center Power and Cooling Hardware…
TechCrunch Startups
Five AI safety sessions every founder should have on their TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 agenda(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
At TechCrunch Disrupt 2026, five sessions across the AI Stage and Real World AI Stage cover AI safety, featuring leaders from Anthropic, Nvidia, AWS, Waabi, and more. Register before September 25 to save up to $200.
AWS — What's New / News Blog
Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS GovCloud (US)
AWS GovCloud (US) now offers Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic’s most capable Opus model yet and, the first of the Claude 5.5 model family, a better collaborator that handles long-running coding and knowledge work, reporting back clearly on what it did, what it found, and what it needs next. According to…
AWS — What's New / News Blog
Claude Opus 5.5 is now available on AWS
AWS now offers Claude Opus 5.5, Anthropic’s most capable Opus model yet and, the first of the Claude 5.5 model family, a better collaborator that handles long-running coding and knowledge work, reporting back clearly on what it did, what it found, and what it needs next. According to Anthropic…
Utility Dive / pv magazine / Energy-Storage.news
California tightens oversight of data center energy use, grid costs(opens the publisher's site in a new tab)
Bills signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom include regulations aimed at ensuring data centers pay for infrastructure needed to serve them and bear a larger share of wildfire mitigation and liability costs.