Amazon Web Services (AWS) has announced plans to temporarily sever its European Sovereign Cloud from the primary AWS Global Network backbone on October 24, 2026. The planned isolation test aims to provide European regulators and enterprise clients with live technical proof that the newly launched sovereign infrastructure can operate completely independently without dependencies on non-EU systems or control planes. Editorial credit: kovop / Shutterstock During the multi-hour e

Frontier AI lab Anthropic has entered into an $11.6 billion, seven-year agreement with content delivery and cloud computing provider Akamai Technologies. The contract, the largest in Akamai’s history, is designed to scale distributed central processing unit (CPU) capacity for Anthropic’s Claude software ecosystem. Editorial credit: viewimage / Shutterstock The deal includes an expansion clause that could allow Anthropic to commit up to an additional $9 billion, bringing the t

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has issued a critical status update admitting it is unable to restore service or recover data hosted exclusively within its primary Middle East cloud infrastructure. The disclosure follows kinetic missile and drone strikes launched by Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) earlier this year, which severely damaged data center facilities across Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates. The announcement highlights an unprecedented physical vulnera

Qualcomm Technologies has finalized a landmark multi-generational collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to co-develop customized artificial intelligence inference silicon and next-generation optical connectivity for cloud-scale data centers. The agreement marks Qualcomm’s largest data center win to date as the mobile chip giant aggressively expands beyond smartphone processors into enterprise AI infrastructure. Following the announcement, Qualcomm shares jumped 10%, dr

Alibaba Cloud is making a major push into Latin America, launching its first cloud region in Brazil and bringing two new data centers online as the Chinese technology giant steps up its global AI infrastructure race. The new region, located in São Paulo, gives Brazilian businesses, startups, developers and public institutions access to Alibaba Cloud services hosted on local infrastructure. It also marks the company's first cloud region anywhere in South America. The move come