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26 articles tagged Cloud, newest first.
Lidl Owner Data Center: Why €5.6B Matters
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 Matters
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: The Subscription Shift Feels Less Like Progress and More Like a Shakedown
There’s a special kind of panic that hits when a vendor stops sounding like a partner and starts sounding like a toll booth.
Ansible vs Terraform for Proxmox Automation: Which Should You Use?
Manually creating Proxmox virtual machines works well when an environment contains a few stable workloads.
Amazon’s Water Number Looks Huge Until the Real Fight Starts
Amazon’s data centers used 2.5 billion gallons of water last year, and that number was basically engineered to make people stop scrolling.
Data Center Workers Are Getting Tired of Being the Internet’s Villain
There’s a particular kind of exhaustion running through the data center world right now.
He Was Hired as a Data Center Tech. Then They Tried to Turn Him Into the Whole IT Department
There’s a special kind of panic that hits when a job slowly stops being the job you accepted.
The AI Data Center Boom Feels Like 1999 With Hotter Chips and a Shorter Fuse
Anyone who remembers the late-90s fiber rush can hear the rhyme immediately.
The AI Data Center Race Just Turned Into a Power Race, and Nobody Looks Ready
A $295 billion AI data center buildout is the kind of number that makes everyone stop pretending this is just another infrastructure cycle.
The Data Center Panic Is Getting Loud, Weird, and Exhausting
The latest wave of data center panic has a very specific flavor: part privacy fear, part infrastructure confusion, part “1984” cosplay.
The Data Center Panic Is Overblown, But the Bill Is Still Coming
The phrase “data-center panic” sounds like something cooked up by people who just discovered the cloud has walls, wires, and utility bills.
The Free Data Center Course Everyone Was Desperate to Find
For people trying to break into data center work, the hardest part often isn’t motivation.
VMware’s VCF 9.1 Requirements Feel Like a Door Slamming Shut on Smaller Labs
There’s a specific kind of frustration that hits when a platform you’ve invested time, hardware, and patience into suddenly decides your environment isn...
It’s Just 7 VMs… Why Are We Still Paying for This? — The Uncomfortable Truth About Backup in a Cloud-First World
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 Isn’t Just a Meme, It’s a Warning Shot for the Whole Industry
Recurring shock over Datadog log costs points to a much bigger issue: teams still want rich visibility, but they are far less willing to accept opaque or runaway pricing for it.
When the Cloud Caught Fire: The Day ‘Objects’ Took Down Amazon’s UAE Region and Shook DevOps Faith
It sounds like the plot of a techno-thriller: “objects” streak across the sky, sparks fly inside a hyperscale data center, and suddenly parts of the internet go dark. Except this wasn’t fiction. One of Amazon’s data centers in the United Arab Emirates was hit amid escalating conflict in the region, triggering a fire, a power shutdown, and a cascading outage that rippled through core AWS services .
Microsoft Is Forcing MFA on 365 Admins, and Breaking Old Workflows in the Process
Microsoft's mandatory MFA enforcement for 365 admin accounts is catching teams off guard, breaking legacy workflows, and forcing overdue security cleanups across organizations of every size.
From Scripts to Simplicity: AWS Backup's Native Support for Amazon EKS
AWS Backup now natively supports Amazon EKS, eliminating the need for custom scripts and third-party tools. Here's why this changes everything for Kubernetes disaster recovery.
Cloud First, Regret Later: IT Pros Share What Really Happens After Migration
It always starts with a PowerPoint.
AWS GovCloud vs Commercial Cloud: A Breakdown After the East Coast Meltdown
When us-east-1 went down, GovCloud stayed up. We explore why AWS's isolated government cloud survived the outage, and what it reveals about architecture, dependencies, and real resilience.
Cloud vs. Couch: Is VPS the Better Way to Self-Host in 2025?
The self-hosting community is shifting from home servers to VPS. We explore why public cloud self-hosting is gaining ground, where home servers still win, and how hybrid setups offer the best of both worlds.
Inside AWS's October Outage and What Went Wrong
For over 14 hours, AWS's us-east-1 region buckled under a DNS bug. Here's the full breakdown of what went wrong, how automation backfired, and what AWS is doing to prevent it from happening again.
Broadcom's Big VCF Shakeup: The Calm Guide Through the Chaos
Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation licensing changes are here. Here's the clear, calm guide to understanding what changed, what it means for your infrastructure, and how to respond strategically.
Multi-Region Failover: Why It Is Harder Than Most Diagrams
When AWS US-East-1 went down, engineers worldwide frantically Googled multi-region failover. But the reality is much harder than the diagrams suggest—here's why building true resilience is expensive, complex, and often left underfunded.
AWS us-east-1 Outage: Why Concentration Risk Still Matters
When AWS US-EAST-1 went down due to DNS failure, it exposed the painful irony of cloud resilience. 82 services crashed, including Slack, DockerHub, and Ring. Here's why the cloud's most popular region became its biggest single point of failure.
When the Cloud Breaks: How One AWS Outage Took Down Half the Internet
At midnight Pacific Time on October 20th, the internet started acting weird. Amazon, Duolingo, Fortnite, and Slack all went dark. The culprit? Another AWS US-EAST-1 outage that exposed how centralized—and fragile—the modern internet really is.