All the numbers: Amazon Prime Day 2026 powered by AWS(aws.amazon.com)
33 points by acronpolis | 25 comments
AWS News Blog post presenting usage statistics for AWS services that powered Amazon Prime Day 2026.
#cloud-computing on Hacker News
25 stories tagged cloud-computing, newest first.
Cloud Agents Are Inevitable AI Prisons(normanponte.io)
43 points by nponte | 48 comments
An essay arguing that cloud-hosted AI agents inevitably become restrictive, locked-in environments for users.
AWS says it can't restore some data from mideast facilities struck by Iran(wsj.com)
497 points by berkeleyjunk | 415 comments
Wall Street Journal article reporting that AWS cannot restore some customer data from Middle East data center facilities struck by Iran.
Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute(techcrunch.com)
403 points by ramanan | 577 comments
TechCrunch article reporting that Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month for computing capacity.
I returned to AWS and was reminded why I left(fourlightyears.blogspot.com)
808 points by andrewstuart | 574 comments
Personal blog post by a former early AWS advocate explaining the frustrations that led them to leave AWS and why returning reminded them of those issues.
I am building a cloud(crawshaw.io)
1063 points by bumbledraven | 533 comments
Personal blog post by David Crawshaw on why he is founding exe.dev to build a new cloud, written on its fundraising announcement day.
Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer(isolveproblems.substack.com)
1091 points by axelriet | 517 comments
A former Azure Core engineer's Substack essay, first in a series, on decisions and complacency at Microsoft that eroded trust in Azure, including with OpenAI.
Hold on to Your Hardware(xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
600 points by LucidLynx | 478 comments
A personal blog essay warning about rising hardware prices, shrinking consumer choice, and computing power shifting toward data centers, urging readers to keep their own hardware.
Arm AGI CPU(newsroom.arm.com)
405 points by RealityVoid | 290 comments
Arm newsroom blog post announcing the Arm AGI CPU, a data center processor aimed at rack-level AI infrastructure for agentic AI cloud workloads.
Euro firms must ditch Uncle Sam's clouds and go EU-native(theregister.com)
675 points by jamesblonde | 594 comments
The Register opinion piece by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols arguing European companies should move workloads from US cloud providers to EU-native clouds.
AWS raises GPU prices 15% on a Saturday, hopes you weren't paying attention(theregister.com)
632 points by Brajeshwar | 417 comments
The Register column by Corey Quinn reporting that AWS quietly raised EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML GPU instance prices by about 15% over a weekend.
How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise(nytimes.com)
320 points by reaperducer | 310 comments
New York Times interactive article explaining how OpenAI uses circular deals involving chips, data centers, cloud computing, funding and stock to finance its growth.
Tell HN: Azure outage
856 points by tartieret | 779 comments
Hacker News discussion thread where users report and discuss a Microsoft Azure outage affecting the Azure portal and services in multiple regions.
Summary of the Amazon DynamoDB Service Disruption in US-East-1 Region(aws.amazon.com)
487 points by meetpateltech | 150 comments
AWS post-event summary describing the October 19-20, 2025 Amazon DynamoDB service disruption and related impacts in the US-East-1 region.
Alibaba Cloud says it cut Nvidia AI GPU use by 82% with new pooling system(tomshardware.com)
501 points by hd4 | 286 comments
News article reporting Alibaba Cloud's Aegaeon GPU pooling system, which it says cut Nvidia GPU use by 82% when serving dozens of large language models.
AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1(health.aws.amazon.com)
2214 points by kondro | 2003 comments
AWS Health Dashboard service status page showing open and recent issues, linked in reference to a multi-service outage in the us-east-1 region.
Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its tech in mass surveillance of Palestinians(theguardian.com)
714 points by helsinkiandrew | 583 comments
Guardian exclusive reporting that Microsoft cut an Israeli military unit's access to its AI and cloud services used for mass surveillance of Palestinians.
The future is not self-hosted(drewlyton.com)
417 points by drew_lytle | 367 comments
Blog post by Drew Lyton arguing that self-hosting is not the future of personal computing and data ownership.
400 reasons to not use Microsoft Azure(azsh.it)
605 points by SlyHive | 317 comments
Mastodon profile of "Daily Azure Shit" (@azureshit), an account posting daily complaints about problems experienced with Microsoft Azure.
Microsoft cancels leases for AI data centers, analyst says(bloomberg.com)
373 points by suraci | 304 comments
Bloomberg article reporting an analyst's claim that Microsoft has begun canceling leases for AI data center capacity amid questions about AI demand.
It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds(berthub.eu)
1108 points by Sami_Lehtinen | 616 comments
Blog post by Bert Hubert arguing European governments and societies should stop moving their operations to American cloud providers due to US political risk.
Cracking a 512-bit DKIM key for less than $8 in the cloud(dmarcchecker.app)
769 points by awulf | 370 comments
An article describing how the authors factored a 512-bit RSA DKIM public key using cloud computing for under $8 and tested forged email signatures against major providers.
Lidl's Cloud Gambit: Europe's Shift to Sovereign Computing(horovits.medium.com)
417 points by taubek | 361 comments
Medium article about Lidl's parent Schwarz Group building its own cloud to compete with AWS amid Europe's push for sovereign computing.
Continuous reinvention: A brief history of block storage at AWS(allthingsdistributed.com)
350 points by riv991 | 79 comments
A guest post on Werner Vogels' All Things Distributed blog by Marc Olson recounting the evolution of AWS Elastic Block Store and lessons learned.
AWS us-east-1 down
567 points by rurp | 256 comments
Hacker News discussion thread reporting an AWS us-east-1 outage with increased error rates affecting Lambda and IAM-dependent services.