US-East-1 down again, Linux hit twice in a week, a sneaky supply chain attack — cloud life is never boring! 😅

What's your hot take: is US-East-1's reputation beyond saving, or do we keep trusting it? Drop your thoughts below!

Ep 354 is worth a listen — plus there's an aftershow!

🎧 https://www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/354-us-tirefire-1-lives-up-to-its-stellar-reputation/

#CloudComputing #AWS #Podcast

In this talk, Dingding Lu (Microsoft) shares why Microsoft built Azure HorizonDB for PostgreSQL, a shared storage architecture engineered for performance & scale.

Mark your calendar for POSETTE 2026 Livestream 3 on Wed 17 Jun & join us for Dingding's talk.
https://posetteconf.com/2026/talks/why-we-built-azure-horizondb-for-postgresql/

#PosetteConf #PostgreSQL #Postgres #Database #Community #Microsoft #Azure #OpenSource #CloudComputing #Performance

Anthropic is in early talks to use Microsoft's Maia inference chips for Claude workloads, per reports. The discussions remain unconfirmed and could still fail. Maia would supplement Anthropic's existing $30B Azure commitment and multi-vendor strategy spanning AWS and Google. What matters: whether custom silicon can compete on cost and performance for inference at scale.

#AI #CloudComputing #Semiconductors

https://www.implicator.ai/anthropic-weighs-microsoft-maia-chip-deal-as-claude-demand-grows/

Help students stand out in today’s #IT job market!

Join Linux Professional Institute (LPI) on May 28, 1:00–1:45 p.m. ET for a webinar for education and workforce leaders on how Linux and open source certifications can support student success and career pathways.

Register now: https://lpi.org/bylp

[Disclaimer: This post includes an image generated using AI.]

#highereducation #opensource #linux #workforcedevelopment #edtech #cybersecurity #cloudcomputing #ai #devops #iot

On May 19–20, 2026, Railway went completely offline for 8 hours after Google Cloud incorrectly suspended their production account.

The wild part? The suspension was triggered by automation.

A single upstream provider became a single point of failure.

Millions impacted.

https://blog.railway.com/p/incident-report-may-19-2026-gcp-account-outage

#Railway #GoogleCloud #GCP #DevOps #CloudComputing #SRE #PlatformEngineering #Kubernetes #Infrastructure #Outage #Engineering #WebDev #Startup #DistributedSystems

Jonathan's hot take on Microsoft Copilot hits different: "Having it enabled by default, taking screenshots, doing all those things without explicitly opting in is what I'm unhappy about." With 81 distinct Copilot products and margin compression on free integrations, Microsoft is finally course-correcting. Enterprise focus wins over feature sprawl.

🎧 https://www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/354-us-tirefire-1-lives-up-to-its-stellar-reputation/

#Microsoft #Copilot #CloudComputing

Reduce complexity and protect all workloads—NAS, endpoints, servers, VMs, and SaaS—from a single console.

https://zurl.co/Sk7E9

#BDRShield #DataProtection #Cybersecurity #BackupSolutions #CloudComputing #ITInfrastructure #DigitalTransformation #EnterpriseIT

Sovereign computing: Maintaining ultimate authority over (and therefore responsibility for) your compute infrastructure yourself.

Cloud computing: Delegating responsibility for (and therefore ultimate authority over) your compute infrastructure to someone else.

Sovereign cloud computing: Oxymoron. (Or marketing BS, you decide)

#digitalsovereignty #cloudcomputing #someoneelsescomputer

The $100M Dollar Proof: How Salesforce Used Its Own CRM to Scale Success

Learn the real strategies behind Salesforce’s customer-first approach, AI-powered insights, and scalable automation that helped shape one of the world’s leading CRM ecosystems.

Read more: https://www.apsense.com/article/882284-the-100m-dollar-proof-how-salesforce-used-its-own.html

#Salesforce #CRM #BusinessGrowth #CustomerExperience #DigitalTransformation #SalesAutomation #AI #MarketingAutomation #CloudComputing #BusinessStrategy