Cloud & DevOps Timeline

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• OpenTofu 1.6: the open source Terraform fork reaches general availability (2024-01-10) — On 10 January 2024, OpenTofu ships its first stable release (1.6). The Terraform fork, hosted by the Linux Foundation, was born after HashiCorp moved to the BSL licence and positions itself as a drop-in replacement.
• The Data Act enters into force: scheduled end of cloud lock-in (2024-01-11) — Regulation (EU) 2023/2854, the Data Act, enters into force on 11 January 2024. It will apply from 12 September 2025 and requires cloud providers to make switching to another provider easier.
• Capgemini and Orange launch Bleu's commercial activities (2024-01-15) — Capgemini and Orange announce the commercial launch of Bleu, their "trusted cloud" platform built on Microsoft 365 and Azure. First services are expected at the end of 2024, with SecNumCloud 3.2 qualification targeted for 2025.
• IEA says data centre electricity use could double by 2026 (2024-01-24) — In Electricity 2024, the IEA estimates data centres used about 460 TWh in 2022 and that their consumption could exceed 1,000 TWh in 2026, with AI and cryptocurrencies as drivers.
• WASI 0.2: WebAssembly gets a stable system interface (2024-01-25) — On 25 January 2024 the WASI Subgroup votes to launch WASI 0.2 (Preview 2): the APIs are declared stable and built on the component model, with two worlds, wasi-cli and wasi-http.
• Synergy: the cloud market reaches $270 billion in 2023 as AI revives growth (2024-02-01) — Synergy Research puts the cloud infrastructure market at $270 billion for 2023 and close to $74 billion for Q4 alone, up 20%. Generative AI helps explain the rebound, and Microsoft gains share against Amazon.
• Falco, Kubernetes threat detection, graduates within the CNCF (2024-02-29) — On 29 February 2024, the CNCF announces the graduation of Falco, the open source runtime threat-detection engine created by Sysdig, which relies on Linux kernel events and eBPF.
• AWS buys Talen's Cumulus data centre campus next to a nuclear plant (2024-03-04) — Talen Energy sells AWS its 960 MW campus in Berwick, Pennsylvania, connected to the Susquehanna nuclear plant, for USD 650 million, with a long-term power purchase agreement.
• The EDPS finds the Commission's use of Microsoft 365 unlawful (2024-03-11) — The European Data Protection Supervisor finds that the Commission's use of Microsoft 365 infringes Regulation 2018/1725, notably on data transfers outside the EU. Compliance is required by 9 December 2024.
• Cisco completes its $28 billion acquisition of Splunk (2024-03-18) — Cisco closes its acquisition of Splunk for about $28 billion in cash, or $157 per share, bringing networking, security and observability under one roof.
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2024 in Paris: over 12,000 registrations (2024-03-19) — From 19 to 22 March 2024, KubeCon Europe takes place at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles: over 12,000 registrations, a day of co-located events and announcements on Istio ambient, OpenTelemetry, Fluent Bit v3 and cloud native AI.
• OpenTelemetry announces support for profiling (2024-03-19) — The OpenTelemetry project announces that profiling becomes its fourth signal, after traces, metrics and logs. Elastic and Splunk donate their profiling agents to the project.
• Redis drops the BSD licence for source-available licences (2024-03-20) — On 20 March 2024, Redis announces that future releases, starting with 7.4, will be dual-licensed under RSALv2 and SSPLv1. Redis acknowledges this is no longer open source by the OSI definition; cloud providers must negotiate terms.
• Valkey: the Linux Foundation launches the Redis fork (2024-03-28) — Eight days after Redis changed its licence, the Linux Foundation launches Valkey, a BSD fork of Redis 7.2.4 backed by AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson and Snap.
• xz-utils: a backdoor discovered in the Linux build chain (2024-03-29) — On 29 March 2024, Andres Freund discloses a backdoor (CVE-2024-3094, CVSS 10) in xz versions 5.6.0 and 5.6.1, planted by an infiltrated contributor over several years. It targeted OpenSSH.
• Cloudflare Developer Week: D1, Hyperdrive and Workers Analytics Engine reach general availability (2024-04-01) — Cloudflare opens its Developer Week by moving D1 (SQL database), Hyperdrive (acceleration of existing databases) and Workers Analytics Engine to general availability, for full-stack apps on Workers.
• Google Cloud unveils Axion, its first Arm-based processor (2024-04-09) — At Google Cloud Next 2024, Google introduces Axion, an in-house processor built on Arm Neoverse V2. Google claims up to 50% better performance and 60% better energy efficiency than comparable x86 instances.
• Kubernetes 1.30 "Uwubernetes": 45 enhancements, including stable CEL admission policies (2024-04-17) — On 17 April 2024, Kubernetes 1.30 ships 45 enhancements (17 stable, 18 beta, 10 alpha): per-container autoscaling, CEL admission control, AppArmor, scheduling gates and structured authentication configuration.
• IBM announces the acquisition of HashiCorp for $6.4 billion (2024-04-24) — On 24 April 2024, IBM announces an agreement to acquire HashiCorp (Terraform, Vault, Consul) at $35 per share, a $6.4 billion enterprise value. Closing is expected by the end of 2024.
• Green Software Foundation's SCI specification becomes an ISO standard (2024-04-25) — The Green Software Foundation announces that its Software Carbon Intensity (SCI) specification v1.0, which measures software's carbon footprint, is now an ISO standard.
• Microsoft announces EUR 4 billion investment in France for cloud and AI (2024-05-13) — Ahead of the Choose France summit, Microsoft announces EUR 4 billion to expand its data centres in Paris and Marseille and open one near Mulhouse, with up to 25,000 latest-generation GPUs by end 2025.
• The SREN law: cloud rules in France, from cloud credits to sensitive data (2024-05-21) — Law No. 2024-449 of 21 May 2024 (SREN) caps migration fees and cloud credits, tasks Arcep with interoperability, and provides that the State hosts its sensitive data in a cloud protected from extraterritorial laws.
• Microsoft opens Azure Cobalt 100 virtual machines in preview (2024-05-21) — Microsoft launches the first Azure virtual machines on Cobalt 100, its in-house Arm processor, in preview. Three series (Dpsv6, Dplsv6, Epsv6) up to 96 vCPUs, with up to 1.4x the CPU performance of previous Arm VMs.
• Google Cloud publishes the account of how UniSuper's private cloud was deleted (2024-05-24) — Google explains that a blank parameter at provisioning led to the automatic deletion, after one year, of pension fund UniSuper's VMware private cloud. Its third-party backups made recovery possible.
• Snowflake introduces Polaris Catalog, an open catalog for Apache Iceberg (2024-06-03) — At its Data Cloud Summit, Snowflake introduces Polaris Catalog, a vendor-neutral catalog based on Apache Iceberg's REST API, hostable at Snowflake or self-hosted. The code will be open sourced within 90 days.
• Databricks acquires Tabular, the company founded by the creators of Apache Iceberg (2024-06-04) — Databricks announces the acquisition of Tabular, founded by the creators of Apache Iceberg. The aim: bring the Delta Lake and Iceberg table formats closer. The price exceeds $1 billion, according to its CEO.
• Kubernetes turns ten: 88,000 contributors, 8,000 companies (2024-06-06) — On 6 June 2024, the project marks ten years since its first commit: 250 files and 47,501 lines in 2014, and more than 88,000 contributors from over 8,000 companies across 44 countries ten years later.
• Mandiant: Snowflake customer accounts hit by a wave of data theft (2024-06-10) — Mandiant describes the UNC5537 campaign: about 165 organizations potentially exposed after theft of Snowflake customers' credentials, without any compromise of Snowflake's infrastructure. Without MFA, stolen logins were enough.
• Databricks open-sources Unity Catalog (2024-06-13) — Databricks open-sources Unity Catalog (Apache 2.0 licence, hosted by LF AI & Data): a data and AI governance catalog compatible with the Hive and Iceberg REST APIs.
• FOCUS 1.0: FinOps Foundation publishes the common cloud billing format (2024-06-20) — The FinOps Foundation declares FOCUS 1.0 generally available: an open specification normalizing cloud billing data, already supported by AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle.
• The French competition authority warns about cloud lock-in in generative AI (2024-06-28) — In opinion 24-A-05, the French competition authority points to barriers to computing power and to the lock-in practices of large cloud providers (cloud credits, hard migration) in generative AI.
• Microsoft settles the CISPE complaint for 20 million euros (2024-07-11) — Microsoft reaches an agreement with CISPE, the association of European cloud providers: 20 million euros, an Azure Stack HCI offer for hosters and an independent observatory, in exchange for withdrawing the complaint filed in 2022.
• S3NS files its SecNumCloud qualification application (2024-07-15) — ANSSI accepts the SecNumCloud qualification application of S3NS, the Thales company that operates Google Cloud technology (PREMI3NS offer). Qualification is targeted for summer 2025, with rollout to some 30 early adopters from December 2024.
• CrowdStrike: a faulty update takes 8.5 million Windows PCs down (2024-07-19) — On 19 July 2024, a CrowdStrike Falcon content update causes blue screens on Windows machines. Microsoft estimates 8.5 million devices were hit. The faulty file was live for 78 minutes; getting machines back took far longer.
• Cilium 1.16: netkit, BGPv2 and Gateway API GAMMA support (2024-07-24) — On 24 July 2024, Cilium 1.16 ships from more than 750 contributors: netkit device, BGPv2 API, Gateway API 1.1 and GAMMA support, median memory down 24% and DNS policies with up to 5x lower tail latency.
• AWS stops onboarding new customers to CodeCommit (2024-07-25) — Since 6 June 2024, AWS no longer onboards new customers to CodeCommit, its managed Git service, which a migration guide to GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket revealed in late July. AWS reverses the decision in November 2025.
• Azure: a DDoS attack, then its own protection, disrupt Front Door and the portal (2024-07-30) — On 30 July 2024, a DDoS attack on Azure triggers Microsoft's defences, which amplify the incident because of a configuration defect. Front Door, CDN, the portal and part of Microsoft 365 are hit for up to 8 hours.
• Kubernetes 1.31 "Elli": AppArmor stable, in-tree cloud provider code gone (2024-08-13) — On 13 August 2024, Kubernetes 1.31 ships 45 enhancements (11 stable, 22 beta, 12 alpha): AppArmor reaches stable and the last in-tree cloud provider code is removed, along with the CephFS and Ceph RBD plugins.
• AWS opens its first region in Malaysia (2024-08-21) — AWS announces general availability of the Asia Pacific (Malaysia) Region, its first in Malaysia and its thirteenth in Asia Pacific. It has three Availability Zones and the API name ap-southeast-5.
• Elastic adds the AGPL licence and becomes open source again (2024-08-29) — On 29 August 2024, Elastic adds the AGPL licence to Elasticsearch and Kibana, alongside SSPL and ELv2. Three years after leaving open source, the vendor can again call its software open source.
• Oracle Database arrives inside AWS, Google Cloud and Azure (2024-09-11) — At Oracle CloudWorld, Oracle launches Database@AWS, declares Database@Google Cloud generally available and expands Database@Azure. Oracle services run on OCI, but inside the data centers of its three competitors.
• Google Cloud complains to the European Commission about Microsoft licensing (2024-09-25) — Google files an antitrust complaint in Brussels: it says Microsoft's licensing rules penalize customers who want to run Windows Server outside Azure, with markups of up to 400% and up to 1 billion euros a year in Europe.
• PostgreSQL 17: incremental backups, JSON_TABLE and less memory for VACUUM (2024-09-26) — PostgreSQL 17 brings incremental backups with pg_basebackup, JSON_TABLE, up to 20 times less memory for VACUUM and simpler major upgrades for logical replication.
• Google signs with Kairos Power for 500 MW of advanced reactors for its data centres (2024-10-14) — Google and Kairos Power sign a master agreement to deploy a fleet of advanced reactors totalling 500 MW by 2035, with a first reactor by 2030, to power Google's data centres.
• NVIDIA contributes its liquid-cooled GB200 NVL72 rack design to the Open Compute Project (2024-10-15) — At the 2024 OCP Global Summit, NVIDIA contributes design elements of its GB200 NVL72 rack, including liquid-cooling specifications, to the Open Compute Project and extends Spectrum-X networking to OCP standards.
• Azure Cobalt 100 virtual machines reach general availability (2024-10-16) — Microsoft declares generally available its Azure VMs on Cobalt 100, its first in-house 64-bit Arm processor. It claims up to 50% better price-performance than previous Arm VMs, in fourteen regions.
• Amazon invests in X-energy and targets 5 GW of small modular reactors by 2039 (2024-10-16) — Amazon is anchor investor in a USD 500 million round for X-energy and signs with Energy Northwest a four-SMR project in Washington State, with a target of more than 5 GW in the US by 2039.
• Schneider Electric acquires 75% of liquid cooling specialist Motivair for USD 850 million (2024-10-17) — Schneider Electric takes control of Motivair, a US liquid cooling specialist for high-performance computing, for USD 850 million in cash, and plans to buy the rest by 2028.
• DORA 2024 report: AI improves productivity but not delivery stability (2024-10-23) — On 23 October 2024, DORA publishes its annual Accelerate State of DevOps report: over 75% of respondents use AI daily, yet a 25% rise in AI adoption comes with a 7.2% drop in delivery stability.
• xAI's Colossus supercomputer: 100,000 Hopper GPUs in Memphis, built in 122 days (2024-10-28) — NVIDIA details Colossus, the 100,000-GPU Hopper cluster xAI built in Memphis in 122 days, linked with Spectrum-X Ethernet, with a doubling to 200,000 GPUs under way.
• containerd 2.0: first major release since 2017 (2024-11-05) — On 5 November 2024, maintainers release containerd 2.0, the first major release since 1.0 in 2017: removal of deprecated features, NRI enabled by default and image verifier plugins.
• Istio 1.24: ambient mode, without sidecars, reaches general availability (2024-11-07) — On 7 November 2024, Istio 1.24 declares ambient mode stable: ztunnel, waypoints and APIs reach general availability, 26 months after the 2022 announcement, with a service mesh that needs no sidecars.
• cert-manager and Dapr graduate within the CNCF at KubeCon Salt Lake City (2024-11-12) — On 12 November 2024, at KubeCon North America, the CNCF announces the graduation of cert-manager (86% of new production clusters, per the cited research) and Dapr (more than 3,700 contributors from over 400 organizations).
• Cloudflare loses 55% of customers' logs after a misconfiguration (2024-11-14) — On 14 November 2024, a configuration bug at Cloudflare overloads its log pipeline: about 55% of the logs normally sent to customers are lost over roughly 3.5 hours.
• Ignite 2024: Microsoft unveils its Azure Boost DPU and an in-house hardware security module (2024-11-19) — At Ignite 2024, Microsoft presents Azure Boost DPU, its first data processing unit, and Azure Integrated HSM, a hardware security module. HBv5 HPC VMs and a liquid-cooling heat exchanger for AI are added.
• CISPE launches the European Cloud Competition Observatory (2024-11-20) — Born from the agreement with Microsoft, the European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) monitors software licensing practices. It will first track the settlement's implementation, with progress reports to follow.
• Amazon S3 Tables: managed Apache Iceberg tables inside S3 (2024-12-03) — At re:Invent 2024, AWS launches S3 Tables, a new S3 bucket type that stores Apache Iceberg tables with automatic maintenance. AWS claims up to 3x faster queries and 10x more transactions per second.
• AWS Trainium2 reaches general availability, Trainium3 announced (2024-12-03) — At re:Invent 2024, AWS declares Trn2 instances generally available with 30 to 40% better price-performance than its P5e and P5en GPU instances. It also announces Trainium3 and Project Rainier with Anthropic.
• Ultralytics: a hijacked GitHub Actions pipeline used to mine cryptocurrency (2024-12-04) — From 4 to 7 December 2024, four versions of the Python package ultralytics are published on PyPI carrying a cryptocurrency miner. The attacker exploited a GitHub Actions workflow flaw, then a forgotten PyPI token.
• Microsoft unveils data centres that use no evaporated water for cooling (2024-12-09) — Microsoft says its new data centre designs, used since August 2024, cool chips in a closed loop without evaporating water, avoiding more than 125 million litres a year per site.
• The EU selects the first seven AI Factories of the EuroHPC network (2024-12-10) — The EuroHPC Joint Undertaking selects seven sites for the first European "AI Factories": Spain, Italy, Finland, Luxembourg, Sweden, Germany and Greece, for 1.5 billion euros of public investment.
• Cyber Resilience Act: the EU regulation enters into force (2024-12-10) — On 10 December 2024, the Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) enters into force in the European Union. It requires manufacturers of digital products to ensure security by design and vulnerability handling throughout the lifecycle.
• OpenAI: a new telemetry service overloads Kubernetes and takes ChatGPT down for over four hours (2024-12-11) — On 11 December 2024, the rollout of a telemetry service overloads OpenAI's Kubernetes API servers and breaks DNS-based service discovery. ChatGPT, the API and Sora are degraded for 4 hours 22 minutes.
• Google Cloud: Trillium TPUs reach general availability (2024-12-12) — Google Cloud opens Trillium, its sixth-generation TPU used to train Gemini 2.0, to all customers. Google claims more than 4x the training performance and 67% better energy efficiency than the previous generation.
• Microsoft plans about USD 80 billion of AI data centre spending in fiscal 2025 (2025-01-03) — Brad Smith says Microsoft is on track to invest about USD 80 billion in fiscal 2025 in AI-enabled data centres, with more than half in the United States.
• AWS opens its first region in Mexico (2025-01-14) — AWS announces general availability of the Mexico (Central) Region, its first in the country, with three Availability Zones. AWS plans to invest more than $5 billion there over 15 years.
• DORA becomes applicable: digital resilience for banks and insurers (2025-01-17) — The DORA regulation applies from 17 January 2025 to EU financial entities: ICT risk management, resilience testing, incident reporting and strict oversight of ICT providers, cloud included.
• Podman and Podman Desktop join the CNCF at Sandbox level (2025-01-21) — On 21 January 2025, the CNCF accepts Podman Container Tools (Podman, Buildah, Skopeo) and Podman Desktop at Sandbox level: Red Hat's daemonless container tools move under neutral governance.
• OpenVox: the community releases its Puppet fork (2025-01-21) — On 21 January 2025, the Vox Pupuli project releases OpenVox 8.11, the first release of a community "soft fork" of Puppet, after Perforce tightened its binary distribution policy.
• Vercel introduces Fluid compute, a serverless model built on "mini-servers" (2025-02-04) — Vercel launches Fluid compute: instead of one invocation per instance, "mini-servers" handle several requests in parallel. Vercel claims up to 85% compute savings for early adopters.
• Synergy: the cloud market reaches $330 billion in 2024, generative AI drives half of the growth (2025-02-06) — Synergy Research puts the cloud infrastructure market at $330 billion for 2024, $60 billion more than in 2023. According to Synergy, generative AI drove half of the market's growth over the last two years.
• Paris and Abu Dhabi announce a one-gigawatt AI campus in France (2025-02-06) — At the AI Action Summit, Emmanuel Macron and the UAE president announce a 1 GW AI campus in France, with funding estimated between EUR 30 billion and EUR 50 billion.
• InvestAI: 200 billion euros mobilized, 20 billion of them for AI gigafactories (2025-02-11) — At the Paris summit, Ursula von der Leyen launches InvestAI: 200 billion euros of AI investment, including a 20-billion-euro fund for AI gigafactories of about 100,000 chips, as a public-private partnership.
• Alibaba to invest more than 380 billion yuan in cloud and AI over three years (2025-02-24) — Alibaba announces more than 380 billion yuan (about $52 billion) of investment in cloud and AI infrastructure over three years. That is more than it spent in these areas over the whole previous decade.
• IBM completes the HashiCorp acquisition (2025-02-27) — On 27 February 2025, IBM completes the HashiCorp acquisition, ten months after announcing it. Terraform and Vault join IBM's automation portfolio, alongside Red Hat Ansible and OpenShift.
• tj-actions/changed-files: a compromised GitHub Action exposes secrets from thousands of pipelines (2025-03-14) — On 14 March 2025, the GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files (CVE-2025-30066), used by more than 23,000 repositories, is hijacked to print pipeline secrets into build logs.
• Google announces the acquisition of Wiz for $32 billion (2025-03-18) — Alphabet and Google sign a definitive agreement to acquire the cloud security platform Wiz for $32 billion in cash. It is the largest acquisition in Google's history, subject to antitrust approval.
• Next.js: a middleware bypass flaw (CVE-2025-29927) is made public (2025-03-21) — On 21 March 2025, flaw CVE-2025-29927 is disclosed: an internal header allowed bypassing Next.js middleware, often used for authentication. Self-hosted applications were affected.
• CoreWeave lists on Nasdaq: the AI neocloud's IPO (2025-03-28) — CoreWeave prices its IPO at USD 40 a share, below the hoped-for range, and starts trading on Nasdaq on 28 March 2025 under the ticker CRWV.
• OVHcloud: Bare Metal Pod qualified SecNumCloud 3.2 (2025-03-31) — ANSSI qualifies OVHcloud's Bare Metal Pod platform SecNumCloud 3.2, a turnkey private cloud for sensitive data. It is OVHcloud's second qualified offer, after its Hosted Private Cloud.
• Docker Desktop 4.40: Docker Model Runner runs LLMs locally (2025-04-01) — On 1 April 2025, Docker Desktop 4.40 introduces Docker Model Runner in beta: local execution of language models packaged as OCI artifacts, accelerated by Apple Silicon GPUs, with an OpenAI-compatible API.
• Google unveils Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU designed for inference (2025-04-09) — At Google Cloud Next 2025, Google introduces Ironwood, its seventh-generation TPU, which it describes as the first designed for inference. A pod of 9,216 chips reaches 42.5 exaflops, with 192 GB of HBM memory per chip.
• IEA publishes Energy and AI: data centres could consume 945 TWh in 2030 (2025-04-10) — The IEA's Energy and AI special report projects that global data centre electricity demand will more than double by 2030 to around 945 TWh, slightly more than Japan's current consumption.
• Kubernetes 1.33 "Octarine": sidecar containers stable, in-place resize in beta (2025-04-23) — On 23 April 2025, Kubernetes 1.33 ships 64 enhancements (18 stable, 20 beta, 24 alpha): native sidecar containers reach stable and in-place pod resizing enters beta.
• Microsoft announces "European digital commitments" amid transatlantic tensions (2025-04-30) — In Brussels, Brad Smith presents five commitments for Europe: 40% more data center capacity, going to court if a government ordered services to stop, data protection, cybersecurity and economic support.
• Redis 8: back to open source with the AGPLv3 licence (2025-05-01) — On 1 May 2025, Redis adds the OSI-approved AGPLv3 licence to Redis 8, a year after moving to SSPL. The return of Salvatore Sanfilippo and the Valkey fork weighed on the reversal.
• Argo CD 3.0: safer GitOps with lower memory use (2025-05-06) — On 6 May 2025, Argo CD 3.0 is released, a month after the first release candidate was presented at KubeCon Europe in London: stronger log authorizations, revised defaults and better performance.
• 37signals starts moving its S3 storage out and plans to delete its AWS account (2025-05-07) — David Heinemeier Hansson announces 37signals' migration out of Amazon S3 to its own Pure Storage arrays: AWS waives USD 250,000 of egress fees and the AWS account is to be deleted over the summer.
• Databricks acquires Neon, the serverless Postgres specialist (2025-05-14) — Databricks announces the acquisition of Neon, a serverless Postgres platform. Neon reports that AI agents now create more than 80% of the databases launched on its platform, up from 30%.
• GitHub Copilot coding agent: an agent that works inside GitHub Actions (2025-05-19) — On 19 May 2025, GitHub unveils the Copilot coding agent: you assign it an issue, it works in a GitHub Actions environment and opens a draft pull request. CI workflows require human approval.
• MGX, Bpifrance, Mistral AI and NVIDIA form a joint venture for a 1.4 GW AI campus (2025-05-19) — At Choose France, MGX, Bpifrance, Mistral AI and NVIDIA announce a joint venture for Europe's largest AI campus in the Paris region, at 1.4 GW, with works planned for the second half of 2026.
• Red Hat launches llm-d, a Kubernetes stack for distributed LLM inference (2025-05-20) — On 20 May 2025, at Red Hat Summit, Red Hat launches llm-d with CoreWeave, Google Cloud, IBM Research and NVIDIA: an open source distributed inference project on Kubernetes, built on vLLM, with KV cache and AI-aware routing.
• Amazon Aurora DSQL reaches general availability (2025-05-27) — AWS declares Aurora DSQL generally available, a serverless distributed SQL database compatible with PostgreSQL, designed for 99.99% availability in a single Region and 99.999% across multiple Regions with strong consistency.
• Snowflake acquires Crunchy Data and announces Snowflake Postgres (2025-06-02) — Snowflake announces the acquisition of Crunchy Data, an open source PostgreSQL specialist, to create Snowflake Postgres, a transactional database for AI applications and agents.
• AWS unveils the governance of its European Sovereign Cloud (2025-06-03) — AWS details the structure of the future AWS European Sovereign Cloud: a German-law parent and subsidiaries, EU-citizen management and advisory board, a sovereign controls framework (ESC-SRF) and a first region in Brandenburg at the end of 2025.
• At the French Senate, Microsoft France cannot guarantee data will not go to the US (2025-06-10) — Questioned under oath by the Senate inquiry on public procurement, Microsoft France's head of public affairs answers "no" when asked to guarantee that no data will be passed to US authorities without French agreement.
• Mistral AI and Nvidia announce Mistral Compute, a French AI cloud (2025-06-11) — At VivaTech, Mistral AI and Nvidia announce Mistral Compute, a full AI platform (GPUs, orchestration, APIs) hosted in Europe, with 18,000 Blackwell chips according to the press, and partners such as BNP Paribas, SNCF and Orange.
• Google Cloud outage: an error in Service Control takes down more than 50 services (2025-06-12) — On 12 June 2025, a faulty quota policy crashes Service Control, Google Cloud's API management component, in all regions. More than 50 products return 503 errors for about three hours.
• Microsoft launches its European Sovereign Cloud: Public, Private and national partners (2025-06-16) — Microsoft announces Microsoft Sovereign Cloud for Europe: sovereign public cloud, private cloud on Azure Local, Data Guardian, external key management and national clouds with Bleu in France and Delos in Germany.
• Cloudflare Containers: containers arrive on Workers in public beta (2025-06-24) — Cloudflare opens Containers in public beta, letting developers start containers on demand from Worker code, on its global network, billed every 10 milliseconds of active runtime.
• Broadcom shrinks the VMware partner programme for cloud providers (2025-07-15) — On 15 July 2025, Broadcom notifies many VMware cloud service providers (VCSPs) of non-renewal. The programme becomes invitation-only and the white label model ends on 31 October 2025.
• Amazon S3 Vectors: AWS adds native vector storage to S3 (2025-07-15) — AWS launches Amazon S3 Vectors in preview, an S3 bucket type that stores and queries vectors with sub-second responses. AWS claims up to 90% lower cost for uploading, storing and querying vectors.
• OpenAI and Oracle add 4.5 GW of Stargate capacity in the United States (2025-07-22) — OpenAI and Oracle announce the development of an additional 4.5 GW of Stargate data centres, bringing capacity under development to more than 5 GW, with parts of the Abilene site already running.
• European cloud providers (CISPE) challenge the Broadcom-VMware approval (2025-07-24) — On 24 July 2025, CISPE, which federates European cloud providers, asks the EU General Court to annul the approval of Broadcom's acquisition of VMware. It denounces price rises sometimes exceeding tenfold.
• Microsoft discloses Azure revenue: more than $75 billion in fiscal 2025 (2025-07-30) — In its fiscal 2025 fourth-quarter results, Microsoft quantifies Azure for the first time: more than $75 billion for the year, up 34%. Azure and other cloud services grow 39% in the quarter.
• npm: trusted publishing with OIDC is generally available (2025-07-31) — On 31 July 2025, GitHub makes npm trusted publishing with OIDC generally available: a GitHub Actions or GitLab CI workflow publishes a package without a long-lived npm token, with provenance attestation by default.
• The UK regulator finds competition in public cloud is not working well (2025-07-31) — The CMA publishes its final market investigation decision: competition is not working well in public cloud, with AWS and Microsoft holding entrenched market power. It recommends considering designating them under the digital markets regime.
• GitHub's CEO steps down: GitHub moves under Microsoft's CoreAI division (2025-08-11) — On 11 August 2025, Thomas Dohmke announces he is leaving GitHub's leadership at the end of the year. GitHub will continue within Microsoft's CoreAI organization, with no CEO successor named.
• Kubernetes 1.34: Dynamic Resource Allocation (DRA) reaches general availability (2025-08-27) — On 27 August 2025, Kubernetes 1.34 ships 58 enhancements (23 stable); the core of DRA, which manages GPUs and other accelerators, becomes stable and enabled by default, with a no-breaking-change promise.
• Bitnami: end of free versioned container images on Docker Hub (2025-08-28) — On 28 August 2025, Bitnami (Broadcom) switches its public catalogue: versioned images move to a "legacy" repository without updates, and production use is steered to the paid Bitnami Secure Images offering.
• The EU General Court upholds the Data Privacy Framework in the Latombe case (2025-09-03) — In the Latombe judgment (T-553/23), the General Court dismisses the challenge against the adequacy decision on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The framework remains valid, but an appeal to the Court of Justice is possible.
• Nebius signs a USD 17.4 billion GPU capacity contract with Microsoft (2025-09-08) — Neocloud Nebius commits to provide Microsoft with dedicated GPU capacity from its new Vineland, New Jersey data centre, for USD 17.4 billion over five years, up to USD 19.4 billion with additional services.
• Oracle: backlog jumps to $455 billion, OCI targets $144 billion in 2030 (2025-09-09) — In its fiscal 2026 Q1 results, Oracle reports $455 billion of remaining performance obligations, up 359%. It targets $18 billion of cloud infrastructure revenue this year, then $144 billion in four years.
• The Data Act applies: cloud providers must make switching easier (2025-09-12) — The Data Act becomes applicable on 12 September 2025. Cloud and edge providers must allow switching and multicloud; exit fees will be banned from 12 January 2027.
• Shai-Hulud: a self-replicating worm hits more than 500 npm packages (2025-09-16) — In mid-September 2025, the Shai-Hulud worm infects more than 500 npm packages. It steals tokens and cloud keys, publishes them to public GitHub repositories and spreads by republishing its victims' packages.
• Pulumi Neo: an AI "platform engineer" agent for infrastructure (2025-09-16) — On 16 September 2025, Pulumi launches in public preview Neo, an agent that automates infrastructure changes across repositories, using Pulumi policies as guardrails and requiring human approval.
• WebAssembly 3.0 becomes the new standard: 64-bit memory, garbage collection, exceptions (2025-09-17) — On 17 September 2025, version 3.0 of the WebAssembly specification is published as the new standard: 64-bit address space, multiple memories, garbage collection, typed references, tail calls and exceptions.
• Microsoft unveils Fairwater, its AI data centre in Wisconsin (2025-09-18) — Microsoft introduces Fairwater in Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin, a 315-acre AI campus designed as a single supercomputer of hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs, with closed-loop liquid cooling.
• DORA 2025 report: AI amplifies what teams already are (2025-09-23) — On 23 September 2025, DORA publishes its report on AI in software development: 90% of respondents use it, over 80% see a productivity gain, but the negative link with delivery stability persists.
• KServe becomes a CNCF incubating project, for AI inference on Kubernetes (2025-09-29) — On 29 September 2025, the CNCF accepts KServe into incubation: the generative and predictive AI inference platform on Kubernetes, born in 2019, integrates with llm-d, Envoy AI Gateway and Gateway API.
• Vercel raises $300 million and targets "the AI Cloud" (2025-09-30) — Vercel announces a $300 million Series F led by Accel and GIC, valuing it at $9.3 billion. The maker of Next.js positions itself as an "AI Cloud".
• AMD and OpenAI announce a 6 GW agreement for Instinct GPUs (2025-10-06) — AMD and OpenAI sign an agreement to deploy 6 GW of AMD Instinct GPUs, with a first gigawatt of MI450 in the second half of 2026, and an AMD share warrant for OpenAI.
• Fidelity migrates to OpenTofu: 50,000 state files and 4 million resources (2025-10-06) — On 6 October 2025, the OpenTofu project publishes Fidelity Investments' migration story, which made OpenTofu its default engine. The estate covers over 2,000 applications, 50,000 state files and 4 million resources.
• Knative graduates within the CNCF (2025-10-08) — On 8 October 2025, the CNCF announces the graduation of Knative, the serverless and event-driven layer for Kubernetes created by Google in 2018, used by Scaleway, Alibaba Cloud and Gojek, among others.
• The Commission launches a 180-million-euro tender and a cloud sovereignty framework (2025-10-10) — The Commission launches a 180-million-euro, six-year tender for sovereign cloud services, assessed against a Cloud Sovereignty Framework with eight objectives. Up to four providers will be selected.
• Oracle AI World: OCI Zettascale10, an AI supercomputer of up to 800,000 GPUs (2025-10-14) — At Oracle AI World, Oracle announces OCI Zettascale10, a cluster linking hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GPUs across several data centers, up to 16 zettaflops peak. Orders are open, for availability in the second half of 2026.
• AWS us-east-1 outage: a race condition in DynamoDB's DNS cripples the region for 14 hours (2025-10-20) — In the night of 19-20 October 2025, a DNS automation defect empties the address of the DynamoDB endpoint in us-east-1. EC2, Lambda, load balancers and other services are disrupted for about 14.5 hours.
• Anthropic expands its use of Google Cloud TPUs: up to one million chips (2025-10-23) — Anthropic announces it will expand its use of Google Cloud, up to one million TPUs, worth tens of billions of dollars and well over a gigawatt of capacity expected in 2026.
• Azure Front Door: incompatible metadata crashes the edge network for over eight hours (2025-10-29) — On 29 October 2025, customer configuration changes generate incompatible metadata that exposes a bug in Azure Front Door. The Azure portal, Microsoft 365 and many services are affected for about 8.5 hours.
• AWS accelerates to +20%: $33 billion in the third quarter of 2025 (2025-10-30) — Amazon reports AWS revenue of $33 billion in Q3 2025, up 20%, its fastest pace since 2022. Andy Jassy cites Trainium2 as a multi-billion-dollar business growing 150% quarter on quarter.
• AWS and OpenAI sign a USD 38 billion seven-year partnership (2025-11-03) — OpenAI commits USD 38 billion to AWS: hundreds of thousands of NVIDIA GB200 and GB300 GPUs in EC2 UltraServers, with all targeted capacity before end 2026 and possible extensions in 2027.
• AWS announces Fastnet, a dedicated subsea cable between the US and Ireland (2025-11-04) — AWS announces Fastnet, a dedicated transatlantic cable linking Maryland to County Cork, with a design capacity of more than 320 Tbps. It is due to enter service in 2028 and provide a backup route for its network.
• Crossplane graduates within the CNCF (2025-11-06) — On 6 November 2025, the CNCF announces Crossplane's graduation: more than 3,000 contributors from 450 organizations, and a 2.0 release designed to build full application control planes.
• The CNCF launches the Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance program (2025-11-11) — On 11 November 2025, at KubeCon Atlanta, the CNCF launches the Kubernetes AI Conformance certification, with a v1.0 and AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Oracle, Red Hat, Broadcom, CoreWeave and Akamai among early participants.
• Kubernetes announces the retirement of Ingress NGINX, with best-effort maintenance until March 2026 (2025-11-11) — On 11 November 2025, Kubernetes SIG Network and the Security Response Committee announce the retirement of Ingress NGINX: best-effort maintenance until March 2026, then no further fixes, security ones included.
• Anthropic announces USD 50 billion of US data centres with Fluidstack (2025-11-12) — Anthropic invests USD 50 billion in custom data centres in Texas and New York, built with neocloud Fluidstack, with sites coming online throughout 2026.
• Helm 4.0: first major release in six years, with WebAssembly plugins (2025-11-12) — On 12 November 2025, at KubeCon Atlanta, the Kubernetes package manager releases Helm 4, ten years after its creation: a new plugin system that can be written in WebAssembly, server-side apply support and an improved SDK.
• Cloudflare acquires Replicate to bring more than 50,000 models to Workers AI (2025-11-17) — Cloudflare announces the acquisition of Replicate, an AI model deployment platform: more than 50,000 models will be available to Workers AI users "with just one line of code".
• Cloudflare: a configuration file twice its normal size blocks part of the Internet for nearly six hours (2025-11-18) — On 18 November 2025, a permissions change in a ClickHouse database doubles the size of a bot management file. Cloudflare's proxy crashes: 5xx errors on the CDN for 5 hours 46 minutes, with Access, Turnstile and Workers KV affected.
• Brussels opens three DMA investigations into AWS and Azure cloud (2025-11-18) — The Commission opens three market investigations under the DMA: two to determine whether AWS and Microsoft Azure should be designated gatekeepers, one to check whether the DMA is fit for cloud practices.
• DORA: European authorities designate 19 critical ICT third-party providers (2025-11-18) — The three European Supervisory Authorities publish the first list of 19 critical ICT third-party providers under DORA, including AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft. They come under direct European oversight.
• Microsoft, NVIDIA and Anthropic: USD 30 billion of Azure compute and up to 1 GW (2025-11-18) — Anthropic commits to buy USD 30 billion of Azure capacity and to contract up to 1 GW of NVIDIA compute; NVIDIA and Microsoft commit to invest up to USD 10 billion and USD 5 billion in Anthropic.
• Palo Alto Networks acquires Chronosphere for $3.35 billion (2025-11-19) — Palo Alto Networks announces the acquisition of observability platform Chronosphere for $3.35 billion. The deal closes on 29 January 2026.
• SLSA 1.2: a Source track to secure code before the build (2025-11-24) — On 24 November 2025, the SLSA framework publishes version 1.2, adding the Source track: it covers threats from the authoring, review and management of source code. It remains compatible with 1.1.
• Shai-Hulud 2.0: a second wave, 796 npm packages infected in a day (2025-11-24) — On 24 November 2025, a second wave of Shai-Hulud compromises 796 npm packages (over 20 million weekly downloads). It runs at pre-install time and can wipe the victim's home directory.
• AWS DevOps Agent: an "on-call engineer" agent for incidents (2025-12-02) — On 2 December 2025, AWS launches in public preview AWS DevOps Agent, an agent that correlates metrics, logs and deployments to find the cause of an incident. It has been generally available since 31 March 2026.
• re:Invent 2025: AWS Trainium3 UltraServers reach general availability (2025-12-02) — At re:Invent 2025, AWS declares its EC2 Trn3 UltraServers generally available, built on Trainium3, its first 3 nm AI chip. AWS claims up to 4.4x the performance of Trn2 UltraServers, with 144 chips per server.
• Cloudflare: a 25-minute outage hits 28% of HTTP traffic after a security fix (2025-12-05) — On 5 December 2025, a configuration update meant to protect customers from the React flaw (CVE-2025-55182) takes down the older FL1 proxy: 25 minutes of 500 errors on about 28% of HTTP traffic.
• IBM announces the acquisition of Confluent for $11 billion (2025-12-08) — IBM announces the acquisition of Confluent, the Apache Kafka-based data streaming vendor, at $31 per share, an enterprise value of $11 billion. Closing is expected by mid-2026.
• GitHub Actions: lower hosted prices, a self-hosted runner charge, then a postponement (2025-12-16) — On 16 December 2025, GitHub announces up to 39% lower prices for hosted runners and a $0.002 per minute charge on self-hosted runners from March 2026. After criticism, the charge is postponed.
• Docker makes its 1,000+ hardened images free and open source (2025-12-17) — On 17 December 2025, Docker opens its catalog of more than 1,000 Docker Hardened Images under the Apache 2.0 license, previously paid, and launches DHI Enterprise for customization, regulated-industry compliance and faster patching.
• Green Software Foundation ratifies SCI for AI, a standard for measuring AI emissions (2025-12-17) — The Green Software Foundation ratifies SCI for AI, a standardized method for measuring the carbon footprint of AI systems across their lifecycle, built on the ISO SCI standard.
• Kubernetes 1.35 "Timbernetes": in-place pod resize reaches stable (2025-12-17) — On 17 December 2025, Kubernetes 1.35 ships 60 enhancements (17 stable). In-place pod resize reaches stable, cgroup v1 is removed, ipvs is deprecated and it is the last version supporting containerd 1.x.
• S3NS obtains SecNumCloud 3.2 qualification for PREMI3NS (2025-12-17) — ANSSI qualifies S3NS's (Thales) PREMI3NS offer under SecNumCloud 3.2, based on Google Cloud technology. The qualification covers the IaaS, CaaS and PaaS scopes simultaneously, covering more than twenty services.
• Alphabet buys Intersect for USD 4.75 billion to secure power and data centres (2025-12-22) — Alphabet announces the acquisition of Intersect, a data centre and energy infrastructure company, for USD 4.75 billion in cash plus assumption of debt, with closing expected in the first half of 2026.
• Snowflake announces the acquisition of observability platform Observe for about $1 billion (2026-01-08) — Snowflake signs an agreement to acquire Observe, an observability platform built on Snowflake. Terms are not disclosed; press reports mention about $1 billion, Snowflake's largest acquisition.
• Meta announces up to 6.6 GW of nuclear power with Vistra, TerraPower and Oklo (2026-01-09) — Meta signs agreements with Vistra, TerraPower and Oklo for up to 6.6 GW of new and existing nuclear capacity by 2035, notably to power its Prometheus supercluster in Ohio.
• GitLab Duo Agent Platform: general availability of agents across the delivery lifecycle (2026-01-15) — On 15 January 2026, GitLab declares the Duo Agent Platform generally available to all Premium and Ultimate customers: agentic chat, Planner and Security Analyst agents, flows to fix a CI/CD pipeline, and external agents via MCP.
• AWS opens its European Sovereign Cloud in Germany (2026-01-15) — AWS announces general availability of the AWS European Sovereign Cloud: a region in Brandenburg, more than 90 services, EU-resident operations and 7.8 billion euros invested. Capital control remains Amazon's.
• Cloudflare acquires Astro, the content-focused web framework (2026-01-16) — The Astro team, behind a web framework for content-driven sites, joins Cloudflare. Astro stays open source under the MIT licence and deployable on any cloud, Cloudflare says.
• CNCF 2025 survey: Kubernetes in production at 82% of container users (2026-01-20) — On 20 January 2026, the CNCF publishes its annual survey: 82% of container users run Kubernetes in production (66% in 2023) and 66% of organizations hosting generative AI use it for inference.
• Microsoft unveils Maia 200, its 3 nm inference accelerator (2026-01-26) — Microsoft introduces Maia 200, an AI inference accelerator built on 3 nm, with 216 GB of HBM3e. It is already deployed in Azure's US Central region, and Microsoft claims 30% better performance per dollar.
• Docker Sandboxes: microVMs to run Claude Code and other coding agents safely (2026-01-30) — On 30 January 2026, Docker launches the next generation of Docker Sandboxes, with microVM isolation on macOS and Windows: disposable environments to let Claude Code, Codex CLI, Copilot CLI, Gemini CLI or Kiro run unattended.
• Cloudflare: an automation script withdraws 25% of BYOIP prefixes from the network (2026-02-20) — On 20 February 2026, an empty parameter in a Cloudflare API call causes about 1,100 customer IP prefixes (BYOIP) to be withdrawn, 25% of the total. The incident lasts more than six hours.
• Drone strikes damage AWS data centers in the UAE and Bahrain (2026-03-01) — From 1 March 2026, drone strikes hit two AWS sites in the United Arab Emirates and damage one in Bahrain. Two of the three zones in the ME-CENTRAL-1 region are disrupted; AWS recommends failing over to other regions.
• Azure SRE Agent: general availability of Microsoft's operations agent (2026-03-10) — On 10 March 2026, Microsoft declares the Azure SRE Agent generally available: more than 1,300 agents deployed internally, 35,000 incidents mitigated and over 20,000 engineering hours saved, according to Microsoft.
• Google completes the acquisition of Wiz (2026-03-11) — A year after the announcement, Google completes the acquisition of Wiz for $32 billion in cash, after the green light from US (November 2025) and European (February 2026) authorities. Wiz keeps its brand and continues to protect all major clouds.
• Trivy compromised by TeamPCP: a security scanner becomes an attack vector on pipelines (2026-03-19) — On 19 March 2026, attackers publish a booby-trapped release of the Trivy scanner (v0.69.4) and hijack almost all tags of its GitHub Actions to steal CI/CD pipeline secrets. The group TeamPCP is blamed.
• KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 in Amsterdam: 13,414 registrations from 3,644 companies (2026-03-23) — From 23 to 26 March 2026, KubeCon Europe gathers 13,414 registrations from 3,644 companies in Amsterdam, with 31 keynotes and 234 breakout sessions; AI, digital sovereignty and platform engineering dominate.
• CNCF and SlashData radar: Backstage, Helm and kro in "Adopt" for platform engineering (2026-03-24) — On 24 March 2026, the CNCF and SlashData publish the Q1 Technology Radar: 28% of organizations have a dedicated platform team, and Helm, Backstage and kro are placed in "Adopt" for application delivery.
• Ingress NGINX is retired on 24 March 2026: no more fixes, for about half of cloud native environments (2026-03-24) — On 24 March 2026, Kubernetes retires Ingress NGINX: no more releases or security fixes. On 29 January, the Steering Committee estimated that the controller served about half of cloud native environments.
• llm-d is donated to the CNCF as a Sandbox project at KubeCon Amsterdam (2026-03-24) — On 24 March 2026, at KubeCon Europe, IBM Research, Red Hat and Google Cloud donate llm-d to the CNCF as a Sandbox project, ten months after its launch: a Kubernetes distributed-inference framework backed by NVIDIA, CoreWeave, AMD, Cisco, Hugging Face and others.
• GitHub publishes its 2026 security roadmap for Actions (2026-03-26) — On 26 March 2026, GitHub details its security roadmap for Actions: workflow dependency locking, execution policies, scoped secrets, a telemetry stream and a native egress firewall.
• In the UK, the CMA accepts AWS and Microsoft commitments instead of a designation (2026-03-31) — The CMA drops strategic market status investigations into AWS and Microsoft and accepts their voluntary commitments: switching window extended to 180 days, at-cost transfers during migration, new contractual rights.
• Axios compromised on npm: a remote access trojan shipped through a library with 100 million weekly downloads (2026-03-31) — On 31 March 2026, two booby-trapped axios versions (1.14.1 and 0.30.4) are published for about three hours after the maintainer's account is hijacked. They install a remote access trojan on macOS, Windows and Linux.
• Anthropic extends its Google and Broadcom deal to multiple gigawatts of TPUs from 2027 (2026-04-06) — Anthropic signs with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity from 2027, mostly in the United States, after announcing run-rate revenue above USD 30 billion.
• SREN decree: SecNumCloud becomes mandatory for the State's sensitive data (2026-04-14) — Decree No. 2026-272 of 14 April 2026 implements article 31 of the SREN law: the State, its operators and six public interest groupings must host their sensitive data with a SecNumCloud or equivalent cloud provider.
• IEA updates its outlook: data centres at 950 TWh in 2030, AI-focused ones triple (2026-04-16) — In Key Questions on Energy and AI, the IEA estimates data centre electricity consumption will go from 485 TWh in 2025 to 950 TWh in 2030, with AI-focused centres tripling.
• The Commission awards 180 million euros of sovereign cloud to four European providers (2026-04-17) — The Commission awards its 180-million-euro, six-year contract to four providers: Post Telecom (with CleverCloud and OVHcloud), STACKIT, Scaleway and Proximus (with S3NS, Clarence and Mistral).
• Google Cloud Next 2026: TPU 8t and 8i, the eighth generation splits into two chips (2026-04-22) — At Google Cloud Next 2026, Google announces the eighth generation of TPUs, for the first time as two chips: TPU 8t for training (121 exaflops per superpod) and TPU 8i for inference, with 80% better performance per dollar.
• Kubernetes 1.36 "Haru": user namespaces and mutating admission policies reach stable (2026-04-22) — On 22 April 2026, Kubernetes 1.36 ships 70 enhancements (18 stable): user namespaces and CEL mutating admission policies reach stable, gitRepo is removed and externalIPs is deprecated.
• AWS us-east-1: a cooling failure in one zone halts Coinbase for several hours (2026-05-07) — On 7 May 2026, a thermal event in an availability zone of us-east-1 cuts power to servers. Coinbase halts trading for several hours: three of the five nodes of its matching engine were in the affected zone.
• OpenTelemetry graduates within the CNCF, seven years after its creation (2026-05-21) — On 21 May 2026, the CNCF announces OpenTelemetry's graduation: more than 12,000 contributors from over 2,800 companies, the CNCF's second-highest velocity after Kubernetes and more than 1.36 billion JavaScript API downloads in twelve months.
• SoftBank announces 5 GW of AI data centres in France, up to EUR 75 billion (2026-05-30) — On the occasion of Choose France 2026, SoftBank announces up to EUR 75 billion for 5 GW of AI data centres in France, including a first EUR 45 billion phase for 3.1 GW in Hauts-de-France by 2031.
• Snowflake Summit 26: Iceberg v3 generally available, Datastream and a $6 billion AWS commitment (2026-06-02) — At Snowflake Summit 26 (1-4 June), Snowflake announces general availability of Apache Iceberg v3 and managed Iceberg storage, a preview of Datastream (Kafka-compatible streaming) and a $6 billion commitment with AWS.
• Build 2026: Microsoft opens Azure Cobalt 200 VMs in early access (2026-06-02) — At Build 2026, Microsoft launches Azure Cobalt 200 VMs in early access, its second-generation 3 nm Arm processor, up to 128 vCPUs. It claims up to 50% more CPU performance than Cobalt 100.
• The Commission proposes the Cloud and AI Development Act (CADA) (2026-06-03) — The Commission proposes CADA: triple data center capacity in five to seven years, speed up permitting and set four sovereignty assurance levels that condition public-sector cloud purchases.
• AWS Graviton5 generally available with M9g instances (2026-06-10) — AWS declares its EC2 M9g and M9gd instances on Graviton5, 192 cores per chip, generally available. AWS claims up to 25% more compute performance than the previous generation, and Meta commits to tens of millions of cores.
• Terraform MCP server: general availability for HCP Terraform and Terraform Enterprise (2026-06-11) — On 11 June 2026, HashiCorp declares its Terraform MCP server generally available for HCP Terraform and Terraform Enterprise: code generation, plan analysis and workspace queries.
• WASI 0.3: async becomes native in WebAssembly components (2026-06-11) — On 11 June 2026, the Bytecode Alliance releases WASI 0.3.0: WebAssembly's system interfaces are rebased on the component model's async primitives (async func, stream, future), replacing WASI 0.2's polling mechanisms.
• Data + AI Summit 2026: Iceberg v3 and Lakebase disaster recovery from Databricks (2026-06-16) — At the Data + AI Summit (15-18 June), Databricks announces Iceberg v3 and managed Iceberg generally available in Unity Catalog, a Unity AI Gateway and cross-cloud disaster recovery for Lakebase, its serverless Postgres.
• The Commission considers AWS and Azure should be designated gatekeepers (2026-06-25) — At the end of its DMA investigations, the Commission communicates its preliminary position: AWS and Microsoft Azure should be designated gatekeepers for their cloud services, although they fall below the quantitative thresholds.
• Meta raises its Hyperion campus in Louisiana to 5 GW and more than USD 50 billion (2026-07-13) — Meta announces that its Hyperion campus in Richland Parish, Louisiana, will reach 5 GW for more than USD 50 billion, up from 2 GW and USD 27 billion announced in October 2025.
• Google Cloud: a power and cooling failure hits a europe-west4 data center for 15 hours (2026-07-21) — In the week of 13 July 2026, an electrical fault upstream of a Dutch data center makes the backup power fail, then the cooling. The room reaches 44 °C; three services are unavailable for about 15 hours.
• Alphabet: Google Cloud accelerates to +82% in Q2 2026, backlog at $514 billion (2026-07-22) — Alphabet reports Google Cloud revenue of $24.8 billion in Q2 2026, up 82%, with operating income of $8.8 billion and a backlog of $514 billion. In Q3 2025, the backlog was $155 billion.
• Azure: a blast-radius defect isolates an entire West US data center for nearly five hours (2026-07-23) — On 23 July 2026, during a repair on an optical device, the blast-radius analysis system extends the maintenance to all egress devices of the West US data center. External traffic is cut from 14:44 to 19:41 UTC.
• GitHub reports on its measures against attacks on npm and GitHub Actions (2026-07-28) — On 28 July 2026, GitHub recaps the changes shipped to break attack techniques on npm and Actions: install scripts disabled by default in npm v12, staged publishing, a three-day Dependabot cooldown.
• AWS accelerates to +37% in Q2 2026, its fastest growth in 18 quarters (2026-07-30) — Amazon reports AWS revenue of $42.2 billion in Q2 2026, up 37%, with operating income of $16.6 billion. Andy Jassy cites the fastest growth in 18 quarters.
• Second-quarter results: the four hyperscalers raise 2026 capital spending to USD 720-745 billion (2026-07-30) — After results from Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon (22 to 30 July 2026), the combined 2026 capital spending guidance of the four hyperscalers reaches USD 720 to 745 billion, and markets are more critical.
• The EU launches the call for tenders to select up to seven AI gigafactories (2026-07-30) — The European Commission and EuroHPC open the call for tenders to select up to seven AI gigafactories in Europe, with applications until 12 November 2026 and awards expected in early 2027.
• Synergy: the cloud market passes $143 billion in Q2 2026, record 43% growth (2026-07-30) — Synergy Research puts the cloud infrastructure market at $143 billion in Q2 2026, up 43% year on year, the highest growth in eight years. Amazon holds 28% of the market, Microsoft 20% and Google 15%.
• Mini Shai-Hulud: the keyv and cacheable attack hits packages with over 2 billion monthly downloads (2026-08-04) — On 4 August 2026, after the hijacking of its maintainer's GitHub account, about ten npm packages of the keyv and cacheable family are booby-trapped by a credential-stealing worm, which spreads to hundreds more packages.
• Cloud Native Buildpacks graduates within the CNCF (2026-08-11) — On 11 August 2026, the CNCF announces the graduation of Cloud Native Buildpacks, the container image build standard born in 2018 at Pivotal and Heroku: 535 contributors from 164 organizations.
• Mistral AI creates a European compute coalition and targets 1 GW by 2030 (2026-08-11) — Mistral AI makes its regional endpoints (Europe or US) generally available and launches a coalition of companies, with multi-year capacity commitments, to reach up to 1 GW of infrastructure in Europe by 2030.
• Kubeflow graduates within the CNCF, nine years after its creation at Google (2026-08-17) — On 17 August 2026, the CNCF announces the graduation of Kubeflow, the open source AI and ML lifecycle platform on Kubernetes: nearly 260 million PyPI downloads, more than 6,600 contributors from over 1,000 organizations.
• Amazon EC2 turns 20: more than 1,200 instance types across 39 Regions (2026-08-25) — AWS marks 20 years of Amazon EC2, launched in beta in 2006 with a single instance type in a single Region. The service now counts more than 1,200 instance types across 39 Regions.
• Grafana Labs passes 10,000 customers and $600 million in annual recurring revenue (2026-08-26) — Grafana Labs announces more than 10,000 customers and annual recurring revenue above $600 million. The average number of products per contracted customer rises from 2.3 to 4.4.
• Kubernetes 1.37 "Garhwal": HPA scale-to-zero and gang scheduling in beta (2026-08-26) — On 26 August 2026, Kubernetes 1.37 ships 67 enhancements (16 stable, 23 beta, 27 alpha): gang scheduling and HPA scale-to-zero enter beta, and the metrics.k8s.io API and pod certificates become stable.
• Vercel presents Fluid, a unified compute layer for functions, sandboxes and builds (2026-09-01) — Vercel details Fluid, a compute layer that assembles machine, environment and storage on demand for each workload. Vendor figures: 15 million builds a day, 25 million sandboxes a week, 1 trillion requests a month.
• NumSpot obtains SecNumCloud qualification for its IaaS (2026-09-01) — NumSpot, a 100% French cloud owned by Banque des Territoires, Docaposte, Dassault Systèmes and Bouygues Telecom, obtains SecNumCloud qualification for its IaaS. Its managed services are still under review.
• OVHcloud: its public cloud SNC Cloud Platform qualified SecNumCloud (2026-09-01) — OVHcloud obtains SecNumCloud qualification for SNC Cloud Platform, its pay-as-you-go public cloud. It is its third qualified offer. Rollout is planned next in Italy, Germany and Poland.
• Mistral AI raises 3 billion euros for sovereign AI and infrastructure (2026-09-08) — Mistral AI announces a 3-billion-euro Series D, at a post-money valuation above 21 billion euros. Samsung leads it; the funds will finance compute, data centers and expansion.
• Karmada, multi-cluster Kubernetes management, graduates at KubeCon China (2026-09-08) — On 8 September 2026, at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon + OpenInfra Summit + PyTorch Conference in Shanghai, the CNCF announces Karmada's graduation: running applications across clusters, clouds and regions, with Bloomberg, Alibaba Cloud and Huawei among adopters.
• Cyber Resilience Act: reporting obligations apply from 11 September 2026 (2026-09-11) — On 11 September 2026, the Cyber Resilience Act's reporting obligations apply: manufacturers must report actively exploited vulnerabilities and serious incidents affecting their digital products.
• NumSpot and Mistral AI launch a managed AI offer on sovereign cloud (2026-09-15) — NumSpot and Mistral AI offer a managed AI service operated end to end in France on sovereign cloud infrastructure, combining Mistral's models with NumSpot's PaaS services, whose SecNumCloud qualification is under way.
• GitHub Actions: workflow execution protections are generally available, pull_request_target disabled by default (2026-09-17) — On 17 September 2026, GitHub makes Actions workflow execution protections generally available. A default rule disables pull_request_target in public repositories, enforced on 2 November 2026.
• Apsara 2026: Alibaba Cloud targets more than 20 GW of capacity by 2032 and unveils the Zhenwu V900 chip (2026-09-22) — At the Apsara Conference, Eddie Wu announces a target of more than 20 GW of data center capacity by 2032. Alibaba unveils the Zhenwu V900 AI chip (216 GB of memory), expected in mass production in the first quarter of 2027.
• State of Tokenomics: 472 company responses on the economics of AI spending (2026-09-23) — The Tokenomics Foundation publishes release candidate 1.0 of State of Tokenomics: three in four enterprises cannot confidently prove the outcomes of their AI spending to their CFO.
• Docker Cloud Sandboxes: AI agent microVMs in the cloud, and a Kit format proposed to the CNCF (2026-09-24) — On 24 September 2026, at WeAreDevelopers, Docker launches Cloud Sandboxes: AI agent microVMs run on Docker-managed cloud, from 1 to 16 vCPUs, and the OCI-image Kit format will be brought to the CNCF.
• Netlify moves its Edge Functions from V8 isolates to Firecracker microVMs (2026-09-29) — Netlify now runs its Edge Functions in Firecracker microVMs on its own network, instead of V8 isolates hosted elsewhere. Median latency of 5 to 6 ms, versus 25 to 40 ms, according to the vendor.