Cloud Computing 11 August 2025 - 21 October 2025

Backblaze Shares Up 10% Ahead of Next AI Cloud Test
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Backblaze Shares Up 10% Ahead of Next AI Cloud Test

Backblaze Inc jumped 10% at Monday’s close, with shares extending gains after recent earnings. The cloud storage name on Nasdaq finished at $9.11, and the last after-hours quote was $9.13, according to Google Finance. Two investor events are set for this week. The timing comes into play. Backblaze said CFO Marc Suidan plans to meet investors one-on-one at William Blair’s Growth Stock Conference in Chicago on Tuesday. CEO Gleb Budman is set to present at a BofA Securities tech event Wednesday.
June 2, 2026
Amazon AWS Cloud Crash Paralyzes Global Internet – Millions Left Stranded
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Amazon AWS Cloud Crash Paralyzes Global Internet – Millions Left Stranded

Amazon’s status updates detail the outage timeline. The company reported that between 11:49pm PT on Oct.19 and 2:24am Oct.20 it saw “increased error rates” in US-EAST-1 aboutamazon.com. Engineers identified a Domain Name System failure for the DynamoDB service and mitigated it by about 2:24am aboutamazon.com. In plain terms, many AWS applications lost the “phonebook entries” that tell them where to find their data. AWS Staff later explained that after fixing the DNS issue, services began recovering immediately, but some internal systems still lagged. They throttled certain operations to help everything stabilize. By early afternoon, Amazon said “all AWS services returned to normal operations” aboutamazon.com. Cybersecurity analysts note this was a configuration glitch, not a hack. Professor Oli Buckley of Loughborough
October 21, 2025
How Confidential Computing Lets Cloud Providers Process Your Data Without Decryption
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No Peeking: How Confidential Computing Lets Cloud Providers Process Your Data Without Decryption

Imagine being able to use all the power of the cloud on your most sensitive data without ever revealing that data – not even to the cloud provider’s administrators. That’s the promise of confidential computing, a rapidly growing approach to cloud security. In this in-depth report, we’ll demystify confidential computing for a general audience, covering what it is, how it works, why it’s so important for cloud security and compliance, and how it keeps data safe even from insider threats. We’ll look at real use cases across industries, highlight which major cloud providers offer this technology, discuss its challenges and evolving standards, and review the latest developments. Expert insights and quotes are included along the way. Let’s unlock the secrets
August 11, 2025
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