Cloud
"We're taking on one piece of the network step-by-step. eBPF is making a lot of things possible and with cloud native, all aspects of the network and of connectivity have an opportunity to be redone better."
Executives are getting more worried about the risk of being too dependent on one cloud. But the dominance of the cloud giants makes it hard to avoid.
"Unfortunately, the size of an existing EBS volume cannot be decreased. Instead, it is possible to create a smaller volume and move the data using tools such as rsync, at the cost of pausing the system’s write operations during the migration..."
“It's not all customers deciding to shut down workloads” says Amazon's CEO as cloud growth drops to 12% -- with the company saying customers are recognising that AI costs can also spiral.
AI, says Microsoft, is "redefining our role in business applications” with partners adding Copilots as a “process transformation layer" on top of existing systems.
Announcement leaves AWS lagging Azure and OCI - with Oracle already running sovereign infrastructure in Frankfurt and Madrid with “no backbone network connection to other cloud regions”
Upstream utility disturbance triggers brief bout of sweating with "a small amount of storage nodes" needing to be recovered manually in the wake of the Azure incident,
The shift has teed it up for the ongoing cloud migration with autoscaling and efficiency efforts and says the new platform means “service teams are largely distanced from the infrastructure detail of this transition.”