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5 days ago

Digital sovereignty, the musical: One engineer's bizarre crusade against hyperscalers

Amine Raiti, an infrastructure architect and SRE currently working at a European Central Bank-regulated financial institution, has launched what may be the least conventional anti-cloud campaign in enterprise IT history: a multilingual pressure operation called "Operation Dindon," complete with satirical poetry, orchestral music, K-pop, and a fictional turkey trapped in cloud dependency.
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fromTheregister
2 months ago
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Tencent sees 'better pricing environment' due to AI boom

Alibaba Cloud and Baidu Cloud announced price increases of 5-34% and 5-30% respectively, citing AI demand surge and rising supply chain costs as primary drivers.
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2 months ago
Tech industry

Alibaba Cloud lifts prices, blames AI and hardware costs

Alibaba Cloud increases prices by up to 34 percent for GPU instances and accelerators, citing rising hardware costs and global AI demand surge.
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fromTheregister
2 months ago

Tencent sees 'better pricing environment' due to AI boom

Alibaba Cloud and Baidu Cloud announced price increases of 5-34% and 5-30% respectively, citing AI demand surge and rising supply chain costs as primary drivers.
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fromTheregister
2 months ago

Alibaba Cloud lifts prices, blames AI and hardware costs

Alibaba Cloud increases prices by up to 34 percent for GPU instances and accelerators, citing rising hardware costs and global AI demand surge.
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fromTheregister
5 months ago

After selling stake in Ampere, Oracle fields more Arm cores

Oracle launched A4 Standard OCI instances using AmpereOne M Arm silicon (virtualized and bare metal) despite divesting its Ampere stake.
fromTheregister
6 months ago

OVH CEO predicts some cloud prices to rise 5-10 percent

The price of some cloud services will have to rise by five to ten percent by mid-2026, maybe sooner, according to Octave Klaba, CEO of French cloud OVH. In a weekend post to his X account, Klaba opened with the observation that the price of RAM and NVMe drives will increase significantly in around six months. The CEO attributed that increase to demand for AI hardware, which he said has seen memory-makers shift production to the HBM memory used in GPUs.
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fromTheregister
6 months ago

Boffins: cloud computing's on-demand biz model is failing us

Commercial cloud pricing and procurement models misalign with scientific workflows, causing unreliable, costly access to specialized compute for budget-constrained research projects.
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