Lumen Technologies is extending its security reach into AWS by offering Defender Managed Rules on AWS Marketplace, giving enterprises direct access to the same threat intelligence that safeguards its global network. The move lets customers apply continuously updated rules from Black Lotus Labs to their AWS Network Firewalls, helping them intercept attacks earlier in the kill chain and reduce exposure without adding new infrastructure or operational weight. Read all
CrowdStrike is rolling out new cloud detection and response features that arrive at a moment when security teams are struggling to keep up with the pace of attacks in modern cloud environments. The updates reflect a shift in how intrusions unfold, as attackers now move quickly across multi cloud setups while blending in with normal activity. Read all
Amazon Web Services introduced its new DevOps Agent, an AI-driven tool that helps engineers pinpoint outage causes far faster than traditional workflows. The system analyzes signals from platforms like Datadog and Dynatrace, then assigns investigative tasks to specialized agents. Early testers, including Commonwealth Bank of Australia, say it cuts diagnosis time dramatically. AWS aims to give on-call teams a clearer picture before they even join an incident call. Read all
BlackRock is moving its long-standing Aladdin investment platform onto AWS, giving financial institutions another route to run the system as multi-cloud strategies gain momentum. The shift also lets Amazon use Aladdin to manage its own global investment portfolio. BlackRock frames the move as an effort to give clients more control over how they deploy risk modeling and analytics, with US availability expected in late 2026. Read all
ProHoster.Info is widening its footprint in Central and Eastern Europe with a new batch of dedicated servers now running out of Gdansk. The company is positioning this expansion as part of a longer push to strengthen infrastructure in regions where hosting demand has grown steadily and often quietly over the past few years. While the hosting market across Europe remains crowded, Poland has emerged as a location that businesses increasingly see as a practical midway point between Western Europe and the Baltics. Read all
Summit is taking a bigger swing at the hybrid infrastructure market by acquiring HorizonIQ, a move that brings automated bare metal provisioning, Proxmox support, and nine more data center regions under its umbrella. The deal gives Summit a wider toolkit for organizations that still need dedicated performance and tighter control than hyperscale clouds can offer. By blending automation with managed services, Summit aims to simplify how enterprises balance private and hybrid strategies. Read all
Akamai is taking another step toward reshaping its position in the cloud market by bringing Fermyon into its fold. The move gives the company a WebAssembly based serverless platform at a moment when many organizations want to run smaller workloads closer to where data actually lives. Instead of depending on large data center regions, teams can begin shifting tasks to the edge, where lower latency often changes how applications behave. Read all
Digital Realty opened its 12th data center in the Netherlands, adding 27MW of new capacity as Amsterdam strengthens its position as Europe’s busiest interconnection hub. The AMS11 site near Schiphol Airport supports high-density, AI-driven workloads and runs entirely on renewable power. The company integrated advanced liquid cooling to meet rising GPU needs, reflecting the Netherlands’ fast-climbing demand for scalable, sustainable digital infrastructure. Read all
Firefly AI introduced a resilience-focused platform designed to close the widening gap between routine cloud backups and the ability to rebuild systems during major outages. The tool, Cloud Resilience Posture Management, tracks real-time configurations and dependencies to show whether critical workloads can restart elsewhere when a region fails. Its launch follows recent AWS and Azure disruptions that exposed how many organizations protect data but lack a recoverable runtime environment. Read all
As artificial intelligence becomes part of everyday online activity, the threat landscape around websites has started to shift in ways security teams did not fully anticipate. Hosting providers now face attacks that move faster, study their targets in real time and adjust tactics before most defenses even react. This year, Hosted.com rolled out additional security layers after noticing how quickly some of these AI powered threats were spreading across customer sites. Read all
Infor deepened its work with AWS by bringing its Velocity Suite to AWS Marketplace and joining the first wave of partners for the upcoming AWS European Sovereign Cloud. The move gives industries facing strict data-residency rules a clearer path to modernize their operations while tapping Infor’s growing set of AI-driven tools. With sovereignty, automation, and compliance converging, Infor is positioning its cloud stack for a rapidly shifting regulatory landscape. Read all
AWS and Google Cloud took an unexpected step toward easing one of the most persistent problems in multicloud operations, revealing a joint networking approach that aims to simplify how companies connect workloads across competing platforms. Read all
SUSE is deepening its push into AI operations with a unified stack designed to close the widening gap between AI ambitions and real-world deployment. Built on Rancher Prime, the new release bundles AI governance, observability and inference tools into one platform, giving teams a clearer way to manage growing hybrid workloads. The update also introduces virtual clusters, expanded telemetry, and new partnerships that aim to simplify the fragmented tools behind enterprise AI. Read all
