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26 articles tagged Cloud, newest first.
Lidl Owner Plans €5.6B, 240 MW Data Center in Germany
Schwarz Group plans up to €5.6B for a 240 MW German data center by 2033, tying Lidl's owner to Europe's sovereign cloud push.
Digital Sovereignty: Why Open Source and Hybrid Cloud Matter
Europe's 2026 tech sovereignty push puts open source and cloud control together. The practical test is portability, control, and a real exit path.
SolarWinds Customers Are Furious About the Subscription Shift
SolarWinds seems to be dropping perpetual licenses. Customers share renewal hikes, negotiation tactics, HCO math and the alternatives they weigh.
Ansible vs Terraform for Proxmox Automation: Which Should You Use?
How Terraform and Ansible each automate Proxmox VE, their risks around state, providers and idempotency, and when to use one or both together.
Amazon’s Water Number Looks Huge Until the Real Fight Starts
Amazon's data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water. Why the figure set off a fight over agriculture comparisons, local impact and big tech trust.
Data Center Workers Are Tired of Being the Internet's Villain
Data center workers describe conspiracy posts, threats and hiding their jobs, while residents raise real concerns about tax deals, power and water.
Hired as a Data Center Tech, Then Asked to Run All of IT
A data center tech was pushed into running networks, firewalls and Citrix for 2,000 users on salary with no support. Readers said: get out and interview.
The AI Data Center Boom Feels Like 1999 With Hotter Chips
Is the AI data center boom a replay of the 1999 fiber bubble? GPU depreciation, power limits, token demand and who survives an overbuild.
The AI Data Center Race Has Turned Into a Power Race
China's $295 billion AI data center plan puts power, grid capacity, supply chains and local politics at the center of the AI race with the US.
The Data Center Panic Is Getting Loud, Weird, and Exhausting
Why data center panic is growing: myths about edge sites replacing data centers by 2030, privacy gadgets that still use the cloud, and real local concerns.
The Data Center Panic Is Overblown, But the Bill Is Still Coming
Data center fears get loud, but power bills, grid debt, farmland, tax deals, and AI bubble risk are real questions communities need answered.
The Free Data Center Course Everyone Was Desperate to Find
Schneider Electric's free Data Center Certified Associate learning path: what it covers, how to find it, and why beginners were so glad to see it shared.
VMware VCF 9.1 Requirements Leave Smaller Labs Feeling Shut Out
VCF 9.1's Service Runtime reportedly needs 40 vCPU and 82GB RAM at its smallest size. Why home labs and smaller shops are rethinking the upgrade.
It's Just 7 VMs: Do Small Teams Still Need Paid Backup Software?
As on-prem footprints shrink, teams are questioning whether full enterprise backup stacks still make sense for a handful of rebuildable virtual machines.
Datadog Log Cost Panic Is a Warning for the Observability Industry
Shock over Datadog log bills shows teams still want rich visibility but have less patience for opaque or runaway pricing, as alternatives gain ground.
The Day Objects Took Down the AWS UAE Region and Shook DevOps Faith
A fire caused by objects striking an AWS data center in the UAE disrupted ME-CENTRAL-1 services and reopened the multi-AZ vs multi-region debate.
Microsoft Is Forcing MFA on 365 Admins and Breaking Old Workflows
Microsoft's mandatory MFA for 365 admin accounts is breaking legacy scripts, service accounts and break-glass access, and forcing overdue cleanups.
AWS Backup Adds Native Amazon EKS Support: No More Backup Scripts
AWS Backup now supports Amazon EKS natively, backing up cluster state and persistent volumes without custom scripts or Velero. What users think so far.
Cloud First, Regret Later: IT Pros on What Happens After Migration
IT pros explain why cloud migrations often cost more: lift and shift, hidden fees, OPEX accounting, when cloud pays off, and de-cloudification.
AWS GovCloud vs Commercial Cloud After the us-east-1 Outage
Why AWS GovCloud stayed up when us-east-1 went down, why some federal users still had problems, and what the outage says about cloud dependencies.
Cloud vs. Couch: Is VPS the Better Way to Self-Host in 2025?
Why self-hosters are moving from home servers to VPS, where home hardware still wins on storage, latency and control, and how hybrid setups combine both.
Inside AWS's October Outage and What Went Wrong
How a DynamoDB DNS race condition disrupted AWS us-east-1 for over 14 hours, hitting EC2, NLB, Lambda and Connect, and what AWS is changing.
Broadcom's Big VCF Shakeup: A Calm Guide to the Licensing Changes
What Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation licensing changes mean, from BYO cloud licenses and the 16-core rule to VCF 9.0, and how teams are responding.
Multi-Region Failover: Why It Is Harder Than the Diagrams Suggest
After the AWS US-East-1 outage, engineers Googled multi-region failover. Cost, vendor dependencies and unrehearsed plans make it harder than diagrams show.
AWS us-east-1 Outage: Why Concentration Risk Still Matters
A DynamoDB DNS failure took down AWS US-EAST-1 and 82 services, from Slack to Ring. Why one region is still the cloud's biggest single point of failure.
When the Cloud Breaks: How One AWS Outage Took Down Half the Internet
The October 20 AWS us-east-1 outage took down Amazon, Slack, Fortnite, Duolingo and more, and showed how much of the internet depends on one region.