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Amazon and Google Announce Resilient 'Multicloud' Networking Service Plus an Open API for Interoperability

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Par :EditorDavid
1 décembre 2025 à 08:34
Their announcement calls it "more than a multicloud solution," saying it's "a step toward a more open cloud environment. The API specifications developed for this product are open for other providers and partners to adopt, as we aim to simplify global connectivity for everyone." Amazon and Google are introducing "a jointly developed multicloud networking service," reports Reuters. "The initiative will enable customers to establish private, high-speed links between the two companies' computing platforms in minutes instead of weeks." The new service is being unveiled a little over a month after an Amazon Web Services outage on October 20 disrupted thousands of websites worldwide, knocking offline some of the internet's most popular apps, including Snapchat and Reddit. That outage will cost U.S. companies between $500 million and $650 million in losses, according to analytics firm Parametrix. Google and Amazon are promising "high resiliency" through "quad-redundancy across physically redundant interconnect facilities and routers," with both Amazon and Google continuously watching for issues. (And they're using MACsec encryption between the Google Cloud and AWS edge routers, according to Sunday's announcement: As organizations increasingly adopt multicloud architectures, the need for interoperability between cloud service providers has never been greater. Historically, however, connecting these environments has been a challenge, forcing customers to take a complex "do-it-yourself" approach to managing global multi-layered networks at scale.... Previously, to connect cloud service providers, customers had to manually set up complex networking components including physical connections and equipment; this approach required lengthy lead times and coordinating with multiple internal and external teams. This could take weeks or even months. AWS had a vision for developing this capability as a unified specification that could be adopted by any cloud service provider, and collaborated with Google Cloud to bring it to market. Now, this new solution reimagines multicloud connectivity by moving away from physical infrastructure management toward a managed, cloud-native experience. Reuters points out that Salesforce "is among the early users of the new approach, Google Cloud said in a statement."

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Comment échapper à la prochaine panne mondiale du Net en « moins de 60 minutes » ? AWS assure avoir la réponse

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Par :Amine Baba Aissa
28 novembre 2025 à 12:38

Le 26 novembre 2025, Amazon Web Services a dévoilé « Accelerated Recovery » (récupération accélérée, en français). Une nouvelle fonctionnalité qui pourrait limiter la casse en cas de future panne géante affectant ses services.

AWS Introduces DNS Failover Feature for Its Notoriously Unreliable US East Region

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Par :msmash
28 novembre 2025 à 10:01
Amazon Web Services has rolled out a DNS resilience feature that allows customers to make domain name system changes within 60 minutes of a service disruption in its US East region, a direct response to the long history of outages at the cloud giant's most troubled infrastructure. AWS said customers in regulated industries like banking, fintech and SaaS had asked for additional capabilities to meet business continuity and compliance requirements, specifically the ability to provision standby resources or redirect traffic during unexpected regional disruptions. The 60-minute recovery time objective still leaves a substantial window for outages to cascade, and the timing of the announcement -- less than six weeks after an October 20th DynamoDB incident and a subsequent VM problem drew criticism -- underscores how persistent US East's reliability issues have been.

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Depuis 7 longues années, Airbus tente à tout prix de quitter Microsoft, mais n’y parvient pas

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Par :Amine Baba Aissa
26 novembre 2025 à 14:48

Dans un entretien accordé au site britannique The Register, Catherine Jestin, vice-présidente exécutive du numérique chez Airbus, est revenue sur les difficultés de son entreprise à s'extirper de sa dépendance envers les produits Microsoft. Un objectif qui dure pourtant depuis plus de 7 ans.

Nvidia Brings Ad-free Cloud Gaming To New Chromebooks

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Par :msmash
20 novembre 2025 à 20:10
Nvidia and Google announced today a new cloud gaming plan called GeForce Now Fast Pass that is exclusive to Chromebooks. Anyone who purchases a new Chromebook will receive a year of the service included with their device at no additional charge. Fast Pass allows Chromebook owners to stream more than 2,000 games from their existing Steam, Epic or Xbox libraries. The service removes ads and lets users skip the queue that typically adds two minutes or more of wait time on GeForce Now's free tier. Users get 10 hours of cloud gaming each month. Up to five unused hours can roll over to the following month. Nvidia offers other paid plans starting at $9.99 per month that support higher resolutions, faster frame rates, RTX ray-tracing, and access to a larger game library that includes thousands of additional titles. The companies did not announce pricing for Fast Pass after the first year ends.

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Cloud-Native Computing Is Poised To Explode

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Par :BeauHD
19 novembre 2025 à 00:20
An anonymous reader quotes a report from ZDNet: At KubeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)'s leaders predicted an enormous surge in cloud-native computing, driven by the explosive growth of AI inference workloads. How much growth? They're predicting hundreds of billions of dollars in spending over the next 18 months. [...] Where cloud-native computing and AI inference come together is when AI is no longer a separate track from cloud-native computing. Instead, AI workloads, particularly inference tasks, are fueling a new era where intelligent applications require scalable and reliable infrastructure. That era is unfolding because, said [CNCF Executive Director Jonathan Bryce], "AI is moving from a few 'Training supercomputers' to widespread 'Enterprise Inference.' This is fundamentally a cloud-native problem. You, the platform engineers, are the ones who will build the open-source platforms that unlock enterprise AI." "Cloud native and AI-native development are merging, and it's really an incredible place we're in right now," said CNCF CTO Chris Aniszczyk. The data backs up this opinion. For example, Google has reported that its internal inference jobs have processed 1.33 quadrillion tokens per month recently, up from 980 trillion just months before. [...] Aniszczyk added that cloud-native projects, especially Kubernetes, are adapting to serve inference workloads at scale: "Kubernetes is obviously one of the leading examples as of the last release the dynamic resource allocation feature enables GPU and TPU hardware abstraction in a Kubernetes context." To better meet the demand, the CNCF announced the Certified Kubernetes AI Conformance Program, which aims to make AI workloads as portable and reliable as traditional cloud-native applications. "As AI moves into production, teams need a consistent infrastructure they can rely on," Aniszczyk stated during his keynote. "This initiative will create shared guardrails to ensure AI workloads behave predictably across environments. It builds on the same community-driven standards process we've used with Kubernetes to help bring consistency as AI adoption scales." What all this effort means for business is that AI inference spending on cloud-native infrastructure and services will reach into the hundreds of billions within the next 18 months. That investment is because CNCF leaders predict that enterprises will race to stand up reliable, cost-effective AI services.

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18 novembre 2025 à 07:39

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Tech Giants' Cloud Power Probed As EU Weighs Inclusion In DMA

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Par :BeauHD
17 novembre 2025 à 22:00
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Amazon Web Services, Microsoft's Azure, and Alphabet's Google Cloud risk being dragged into the scope of the European Union's crackdown on Big Tech as antitrust watchdogs prepare to study the platforms' market power. The European Commission wants to decide if any of the trio should face a raft of new restrictions under the bloc's Digital Markets Act (source paywalled; alternative source), according to people familiar with the matter who spoke on condition of anonymity. The plan for a market probe follows several major outages in the cloud industry that wrought havoc across global services, highlighting the risks of relying on a mere handful of players. To date, the world's largest cloud providers have avoided the DMA because a large part of their business comes via enterprise contracts, making it difficult to count the number of individual users, one of the EU's main benchmarks for earmarking Silicon Valley services for extra oversight. Under the investigation's remit, regulators will asses whether the top cloud operators -- regardless of the challenge of counting user numbers -- should be forced to contend with a raft of fresh obligations including increased interoperability with rival software and better data portability for users, as well as restrictions on tying and bundling.

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Deal of the day: Adobe Creative Cloud Pro 12 month subscription now $349.99

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Par :PR admin
16 novembre 2025 à 01:54


B&H Photo has a deal on the Adobe Creative Cloud Pro 12-month subscription – you can get it now for $349.99 ($40 coupon applied in cart):

One of the most well-rounded suites of creative software, this 12-month subscription to Adobe Creative Cloud Pro offers complete access to more than 20 applications for all your design, web, photography, video, and graphic creation needs. Including well-known and favorite applications, such as Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere, Lightroom, and Dreamweaver, alongside more specialized solutions like Adobe XD, Typekit, Audition, Spark, and After Effects, Creative Cloud Pro offers a versatile range of control to edit, produce, share, and manage creative projects.

As a cloud-based service, Creative Cloud Pro gives you unrestricted access to all of the applications on a download basis and also includes mobile versions of select applications for use on mobile devices. This design also helps ensure your applications always remain up to date with the latest features and tools, and it also helps sync settings and files across workspaces. In addition to the software access, this 12-month subscription also includes 100GB of cloud-based storage space for hosting your files.

Please note that this software may only be activated within the USA.

Design

A wide variety of design tools are available for working in a range of mediums to suit nearly any project, whether it be designing logos, posters, brochures, advertisements, or producing artwork. In addition to the beloved desktop applications you know, mobile versions of select applications are also available for sketching, drawing, and creating layouts on the go.

  • Photoshop for image editing and compositing
  • Illustrator for producing vector graphics and illustration
  • InDesign for page design and layout needs for both print and digital publishing
  • Illustrator Draw for vector drawing needs anywhere
  • Typekit offers thousands of typefaces from a variety of type foundries
Web and UX

Capable of producing all your web and online experience needs, a variety of applications can be used to design and prototype websites, create mobile apps, build interfaces, and more. Coding skills aren’t necessary with select visual-based design tools and access to thousands of typefaces enables you to refine the finished look of your sites.

  • Adobe XD for designing, prototyping, and sharing user experiences
  • Adobe Muse lets you design and publish websites without needing to write code
  • Dreamweaver is a fully-fledged web design and development asset
  • Typekit gives you access to a variety of typefaces from leading type foundries
Photography

The standard for photo editing, the well-rounded offering of photo-based applications lets you edit, organize, store, and share your photos from anywhere as well as transform and refine them into nearly anything you can imagine.

  • Photoshop is a robust editing and compositing tool to suit all of your imaging needs
  • Lightroom CC is a cloud-based photo service giving you access and editing controls wherever you are
  • Lightroom Classic is the desktop-focused version of this well-rounded image editing and management application
Video

Capable of handling everything from home movies and sharing to YouTube to producing feature films, a wide variety of video editing tools is available to suit all needs. Editing tools allow you to work anywhere from your smartphone to your workstation, motion graphics can be produced, and audio can be refined.

  • Adobe Premiere Pro is a full video production and editing solution capable of handling any job, big or small
  • After Effects lets you apply cinematic visual effects to your productions
  • Adobe Audition benefits audio recording, mixing, and sound restoration needs
  • Character Animation lets you animate 2D characters in real time
  • Adobe Story serves as a collaborative screenwriting and pre-production app
  • Premiere Clip can be used to edit your videos anywhere from your mobile device
Graphics

Capable of turning your ideas into graphics, web pages, and video stories, Adobe Spark is an intuitive trio of applications that even lets you apply your own branding elements, logos, and colors to projects.

  • Spark Post is a quick means for producing social graphics
  • Spark Page takes your words and images and turns them into dynamic web stories
  • Spark Video can be used to produce compelling animated content

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Rideshare Giant Grab Moves 200 Macs Out of the Cloud, Expects To Save $2.4 Million

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Par :msmash
7 novembre 2025 à 16:02
Singaporean super-app company Grab has dumped 200 cloudy Mac Minis and replaced them with physical machines, a move it expects will save $2.4 million over three years. From a report: Grab is Southeast Asia's leading rideshare and food delivery outfit and therefore needs to build apps for iOS to connect with customers. In a Thursday post, the company explains it builds those apps using Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery/Deployment (CI/CD) infrastructure that runs on Apple Mac computers. The company started with a single on-prem Mac Pro -- its post shows 2013's cylindrical model based around an Intel Xeon processor -- but eventually reached over 200 Macs, running in the cloud at an unnamed US cloud provider. "At the beginning, it was a no-brainer to rent when our demand for macOS hardware increased from 1 Mac Pro to 20 times that size," Grab's post explains. "However, when that grew to over 200 machines, the total cost became significant."

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« C’est une question de culture » : Amazon affiche des résultats record et assure que ses licenciements n’ont aucun lien avec l’IA

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Par :Lisa Imperatrice
31 octobre 2025 à 15:33

La firme de Jeff Bezos a publié des résultats en hausse au troisième trimestre 2025, avec un chiffre d'affaires de 180,2 milliards de dollars. Et ce, juste après l'annonce de 14 000 suppressions de postes, donc des licenciements.

« Je ne fais plus confiance à Signal » clame Elon Musk, mais il n’a rien compris, selon la patronne de l’appli

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Par :Julien Lausson
29 octobre 2025 à 10:15

Suite à la panne majeure d'AWS, qui a causé des perturbations sur Signal, Elon Musk s'en est pris à l'application, jugeant inadmissible la dépendance de la messagerie instantanée à Amazon. Mais pour sa patronne, Meredith Whittaker, il n'a pas compris le véritable enjeu.

Amazon's AWS Shows Signs of Weakness as Competitors Charge Ahead

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Par :msmash
24 octobre 2025 à 20:01
Amazon Web Services basically invented the cloud computing business and once held nearly half the market. That dominance is slipping. AWS captured 38% of corporate spending on cloud infrastructure services last year, down from almost 50% in 2018, according to Gartner. Microsoft now grows its backlog of corporate sales faster than Amazon. The company that brushed aside incumbents and transformed an internal startup into Amazon's profit engine now faces internal bureaucracy that has slowed it down. Bloomberg interviewed 23 current and former AWS employees who described management layers that proliferated after a pandemic hiring binge. One sales engineer who was six managers from Jeff Bezos before the pandemic found himself fifteen rungs from CEO Andy Jassy earlier this year. AWS hesitated to invest in Anthropic when the AI startup was spending most of its cash on Amazon servers. Executives doubted the Anthropic AI could be monetized and were culturally reluctant to pay for external technology they believed could be built in-house. Google invested in early 2023. Amazon followed that September with $4 billion in commitments. On Thursday, Google said it will supply up to 1 million AI chips to Anthropic.

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Le crash d’AWS en a empéché certains de dormir

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Par :Pierre Lecourt
22 octobre 2025 à 10:18

A moins de vivre dans une zone loin de toute actualité, vous avez sans doute entendu parler du crash d’AWS. Le système d’hébergement d’Amazon a mis la pagaille dans le trafic internet mondial en empêchant de nombreux services de fonctionner. 

Sites inaccessibles, jeux qui ne répondent plus, services aux abonnés absents, applications en vrac, le crash d’AWS nous a montré que beaucoup de la vie numérique actuelle passait par les énormes serveurs d’Amazon. Certains sites Européens et Français jurant pourtant que leurs données sont toutes hébergées en Europe ou en France ont d’ailleurs été perturbés comme les autres. 

Si la situation devrait probablement empêcher tout le monde de dormir, le résultat de cette panne en a empêché physiquement certains de le faire. Les propriétaires des « lits intelligents » de la marque Eight Sleep en ont fait l’amère expérience la nuit dernière. 

Ces lits connectés vendus plus de 2000$ ont des fonctions embarquées qui permettent de modifier leur position grâce à une application. Ils sont également capables de contrôler leur température et donc de chauffer ou de se refroidir. Enfin, ils peuvent suivre votre sommeil et même émettre du son. Le tout pour apporter un maximum de confort pour faire dodo. Problème, les lits de la marque ne sont pas munis de télécommande ou même d’un bouton pour les allumer ou les éteindre. Tout passe par une application et, je vous le donne en mille, l’application passe par les serveurs d’Amazon.

Le crash d’AWS a donc fait cuire des propriétaires dans leur lit. D’autres se sont fait réveiller par un changement de position qui relevait leur dos au milieu d’un sommeil qu’ils voulaient réparateur. Certains ont décrit l’expérience comme s’il s’agissait de s’endormir dans un sauna tellement la chaleur émise par le matelas était hors de contrôle. 

La marque Eight Sleep, réveillée par le problème, a assuré travailler à l’ajout d’une fonction d’extinction en local. Il faut dire que tous ces gens qui ont choisi volontairement d’aller ronfler sur le canapé ou qui ont été contraints de débrancher leur lit en pleine nuit, cela fait mauvaise presse. Cela n’est d’ailleurs apparemment pas la première fois que cette marque rencontre des soucis liés à une connexion avec ses matelas.

Le PDG de Eight Sleep a bien cerné le problème après avoir cerné les yeux de ses clients. Il a assuré que tout rentrerait dans l’ordre très rapidement et qu’ils travaillaient, je cite « Toute la nuit, 24/7 » pour réparer au plus vite le problème. Probablement qu’ils n’ont pas le choix puisque leurs propres lits sont très certainement couverts des matelas de la marque.

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Le crash d’AWS révélateur d’une dépendance énorme au Cloud privé d’Amazon

Ce n’est pas la seule histoire que j’ai entendue au sujet de ce problème, mais c’est une des plus amusantes. La plupart des anecdotes qui me sont parvenues sont bien moins drôles. Chômage technique pour des salariés dépendant de services hébergés : « On a planifié des réunions ». À l’ancienne, avec paperboard, rigolades, café et viennoiseries. Un labo n’a pas pu accueillir ses laborantins pour cause de portes sécurisées qui refusaient de s’ouvrir. Un lecteur qui télétravaille a été incapable de s’authentifier sur l’extranet de sa société et a donc passé la journée « à faire du ménage ». De nombreuses remontées de produits domotiques qui ne répondent tout simplement plus sont les moins problématiques de ces anecdotes. Parce que la plupart du temps, il existe une solution alternative pour les exploiter.

C’est amusant tout de même de se rendre compte des dépendances terribles de nos sociétés modernes. Si pour un particulier, il est facile de choisir un objet connecté avec une fonction d’extinction indépendante. C’est tout de même légèrement inquiétant d’imaginer de grands groupes industriels ou de recherche incapables de travailler parce que quelqu’un de l’autre côté de l’atlantique aurait décidé d’appuyer sur un bouton.

Source : Dexerto

Merci à Julien pour le lien.

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Amazon's DNS Problem Knocked Out Half the Web, Likely Costing Billions

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Par :BeauHD
21 octobre 2025 à 19:45
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: On Monday afternoon, Amazon confirmed that an outage affecting Amazon Web Services' cloud hosting, which had impacted millions across the Internet, had been resolved. Considered the worst outage since last year's CrowdStrike chaos, Amazon's outage caused "global turmoil," Reuters reported. AWS is the world's largest cloud provider and, therefore, the "backbone of much of the Internet," ZDNet noted. Ultimately, more than 28 AWS services were disrupted, causing perhaps billions in damages, one analyst estimated for CNN. [...] Amazon's problems originated at a US site that is its "oldest and largest for web services" and often "the default region for many AWS services," Reuters noted. The same site has experienced two outages before in 2020 and 2021, but while the tech giant had confirmed that those prior issues had been "fully mitigated," apparently the fixes did not ensure stability into 2025. ZDNet noted that Amazon's first sign of the outage was "increased error rates and latency across numerous key services" tied to its cloud database technology. Although "engineers later identified a Domain Name System (DNS) resolution problem" as the root of these issues and quickly fixed it, "other AWS services began to fail in its wake, leaving the platform still impaired" as more than two dozen AWS services shut down. At the peak of the outage on Monday, Down Detector tracked more than 8 million reports globally from users panicked by the outage, ZDNet reported. Ken Birman, a computer science professor at Cornell University, told Reuters that "software developers need to build better fault tolerance." "When people cut costs and cut corners to try to get an application up, and then forget that they skipped that last step and didn't really protect against an outage, those companies are the ones who really ought to be scrutinized later."

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Alibaba Cloud Says It Cut Nvidia AI GPU Use By 82% With New Pooling System

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Par :BeauHD
21 octobre 2025 à 10:00
Alibaba Cloud claims its new Aegaeon GPU pooling system cuts Nvidia GPU use by 82%, letting 213 H20 accelerators handle workloads that previously required 1,192. The advancements have been detailed in a paper (PDF) at the 2025 ACM Symposium on Operating Systems (SOSP) in Seoul. Tom's Hardware reports: Unlike training-time breakthroughs that chase model quality or speed, Aegaeon is an inference-time scheduler designed to maximize GPU utilization across many models with bursty or unpredictable demand. Instead of pinning one accelerator to one model, Aegaeon virtualizes GPU access at the token level, allowing it to schedule tiny slices of work across a shared pool. This means one H20 could serve several different models simultaneously, with system-wide "goodput" -- a measure of effective output -- rising by as much as nine times compared to older serverless systems. The system was tested in production over several months, according to the paper, which lists authors from both Peking University and Alibaba's infrastructure division, including CTO Jingren Zhou. During that window, the number of GPUs needed to support dozens of different LLMs -- ranging in size up to 72 billion parameters -- fell from 1,192 to just 213. While the paper does not break down which models contributed most to the savings, reporting by the South China Morning Post says the tests were conducted using Nvidia's H20, one of the few accelerators still legally available to Chinese buyers under current U.S. export controls.

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