New data shows Amazon’s cloud dominance is slowly eroding while smaller players gain traction. The AI boom is creating opportunities for specialized providers to chip away at market share.
A routine Cloudflare update went disastrously wrong when a file in their bot management tool unexpectedly doubled in size. The November 18 outage affected major services including ChatGPT, Uber, and Twitter/X. Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince called it their worst outage since 2019.
Cloudflare’s global outage yesterday wasn’t a cyberattack but a database configuration error that doubled a feature file size. The disruption affected major platforms including X, OpenAI, and Shopify for over five hours. Analysts estimate the incident caused $250-300 million in direct and indirect l
Sabey Data Centers is planning a major data center campus in Indianapolis’ Decatur Township. The $4 billion project will feature two buildings totaling 900,000 square feet and up to 250MW of capacity. Construction is slated to begin in 2026 with phased openings through 2030.
Microsoft just unveiled Azure HorizonDB, a distributed PostgreSQL service claiming 100% compatibility with open source Postgres. The move puts Microsoft in direct competition with AWS Aurora DSQL and Google AlloyDB in the rapidly growing PostgreSQL market used by 58% of professional developers. But
Cloudflare experienced a major service degradation Tuesday morning that took down popular services including X, ChatGPT, and Spotify. The incident generated over 330,000 global outage reports before being resolved around 10 a.m. ET. This marks the second significant Cloudflare outage this year, rais
Lambda secured $1.5 billion from TWG Global after announcing a massive Microsoft deal involving tens of thousands of Nvidia GPUs. The funding far exceeds what industry watchers expected and shows the insane demand for AI infrastructure. This puts Lambda squarely against CoreWeave in the battle to po
A widespread Cloudflare outage has knocked out access to major websites including Spotify, X, and ChatGPT. The company is working on fixes but services remain unstable for many users.
Amazon’s AWS and Microsoft’s Azure face European Union scrutiny over potential anticompetitive practices in the cloud sector. The investigation launched Tuesday will assess whether the dominant platforms act as gateways that limit market competitiveness.
The UK’s push to become an AI leader is creating massive energy infrastructure challenges. New data centers are straining power grids, with some connections facing 10-year delays. Meanwhile, AI could help reduce global emissions by 5.4 billion tonnes by 2035, creating a complex sustainability puzzle
