20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job – Daemonic Dispatches

https://www.daemonology.net/blog/2026-04-11-20-years-on-AWS-and-never-not-my-job.html

I created my first AWS account at 10:31 PM on April 10th, 2006. I had seen the announcement of Amazon S3 and had been thinking vaguely about the problem of secure backups — even though I didn't start Tarsnap until several months later — and the idea of an online storage service appealed to me. [...]

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20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job

20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job

20 Years on AWS and Never Not My Job

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Yesterday (Fri 10 Apr 2026) the temperature ranged from 2.0 to 11.4°C with 0.2mm rain. The wind gusted up to 24mph. Sunrise was at 06:17 hrs and sunset at 20:04 hrs.
#aws #weatherstation #weather

MCP vs Skills論争に決着をつける試み。AIエージェントの「拡張手段」を実装・設計・セキュリティで徹底比較する
https://qiita.com/miruky/items/32314a0d9eb8c154dc95?utm_campaign=popular_items&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=popular_items

#qiita #AWS #AI #MCP #SKILLS #ClaudeCode

MCP vs Skills論争に決着をつける試み。AIエージェントの「拡張手段」を実装・設計・セキュリティで徹底比較する - Qiita

はじめに こんばんは、mirukyです。 「MCPはもう死んだ」「Skillsが新しい標準だ」、、などなど。 ニーチェ? ここ数週間、特に英語圏のX(旧Twitter)やHacker Newsでこの手の議論が絶えません。2026年4月2日に投稿された下記の記事は、特に話...

Qiita

"Chinese firms have long sought a foothold in this market. In 2016, Alibaba formed a joint venture with the Saudi Cloud Computing Company. In 2025, Alibaba opened a new data center in Dubai. Huawei expanded its Gulf presence through domestic telecom partnerships and scaled its Riyadh cloud hub in 2023. Tencent is the latest entrant. While it started building its first data center in Bahrain in 2021, it scaled up cloud infrastructure in 2025 with a $150 million Saudi investment.

At the same time, competition in cloud infrastructure in the Gulf has become far more crowded than a simple U.S.-China battle.

Gulf countries have increasingly invested in their own data center infrastructure, reducing reliance on external providers. Across the region, telecom operators and state-backed firms are building local capacity.

Saudi Arabia and the UAE are rapidly repositioning themselves as global AI hubs, investing tens of billions of dollars in data centers, smart cities, and digital infrastructure. Saudi Arabia expects AI to contribute around 12% of GDP by 2030, while the UAE aims to generate roughly $96 billion from AI over the same period. The region’s data center market is projected to nearly triple to around $9.5 billion by 2030.

Qatar’s Ooredoo has spun off its data center arm, Syntys, which operates facilities across multiple countries and recently expanded in Doha. Saudi Arabia’s STC and Kuwait’s Zain are also expanding colocation infrastructure to attract enterprise and hyperscaler demand.

Even if Chinese cloud providers benefit in the near term, they could only gain traction as “secondary or backup options, particularly for non-critical workloads and regional redundancy,” Manish Ranjan, research director for software and cloud at IDC, told Rest of World."

https://restofworld.org/2026/huawei-china-cloud-gulf-resilience-aws-strikes/

#MiddleEast #Gulf #China #AI #AWS #Huawei #DataCenters

War in the Gulf could tilt the cloud race toward China

Strikes on U.S. data centers highlight the risks of concentration and the growing role of geopolitics in cloud competition.

Rest of World

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@BenjaminHCCarr/116382086068636570

Time to take a closer look at climate commitments of AWS datacenters...

(Via @steltenpower )

#Amazon #AWS