Hyperscalers, sovereign cloud, data centres and networking.
Airbus has selected Scaleway to host sensitive enterprise and industrial applications under European governance, complementing its existing multi-cloud setup without replacing non-EU providers.
Google Cloud has introduced automated regional failover for Cloud Run services, using readiness probes and service health monitoring to detect and reroute traffic away from unhealthy regions within seconds.
A SIDN Labs study reveals 1,163 autonomous systems use small RPKI publication servers, covering 0.016% of IPv4 space with high validation rates but concerning maxLength usage patterns.
Pure Data Centres Group commits €1.5B to a 110 MW AI campus in western Finland, with plans to scale to 550 MW and €7.5B, positioning the site as Europe’s largest AI infrastructure development and Britain’s largest corporate investment in Finland.
Flexential has upgraded its private network backbone to 400 Gbps across 15 US data centers, enabling 100 Gbps customer ports to reduce inter-site bottlenecks for AI workloads, data replication, and hybrid cloud traffic. The move reflects broader industry shifts toward higher-capacity infrastructure planning.
Leaseweb has secured Broadcom’s highest VMware partner designation, Pinnacle status, enabling it to offer managed VMware Cloud Foundation and sovereign cloud solutions across Europe, Singapore, and the U.S. The move reflects growing demand for compliant, regionally controlled infrastructure.
GigaCloud has integrated Cubbit’s geo-distributed storage system to ensure data availability for government, defense, and financial clients amid ongoing infrastructure disruptions in Ukraine. The partnership spans five data centers in Kyiv, Lviv, and Warsaw, with tenant isolation and compliance controls.
The UK will treat Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, Google Cloud and Oracle as critical third parties whose failures could destabilise banking, granting regulators new enforcement powers over cloud services used by financial institutions.
Scaleway has acquired Qarnot, integrating high-performance computing and waste-heat recovery into its cloud platform to target simulation-heavy industries while reinforcing its European sovereignty pitch.
VOLT, NorthC Datacenters, and Dell Technologies are building a Netherlands-based AI cloud infrastructure, starting with an Amsterdam facility in October and aiming for a 250,000-GPU campus in Rotterdam. The project targets regulated European customers but faces power, financing, and hardware supply challenges.
Azure Managed HSM now supports external key management, allowing organizations to store encryption keys on customer-owned hardware outside Microsoft infrastructure while maintaining integration with Azure services. The preview targets regulated sectors requiring physical control over cryptographic material.
A new report highlights systemic vulnerabilities in the UK economy due to heavy reliance on a small number of cloud providers and regions, estimating potential losses of £1 billion from a single 24-hour outage in major AWS regions.
APNIC has deployed Autonomous System Provider Authorization (ASPA) objects in its registry, enabling operators to validate BGP AS paths against published provider-customer relationships. The move is part of a coordinated roll-out across all five Regional Internet Registries expected to complete by the end of 2026.
IBM has released compact versions of its z17 and LinuxONE 5 mainframes designed to fit standard 19-inch colocation racks, aiming to lower physical and operational barriers for enterprises running regulated workloads, AI inference, and Linux consolidation.
RETN has migrated 50% of its IP/MPLS traffic to 400G coherent ZR+ pluggable infrastructure, marking a shift from lab trials to operational backbone economics across Europe and Asia. The move simplifies architecture but alters troubleshooting and vendor accountability.
Google Cloud has introduced policy named sets for its BGP route policies, allowing enterprises to group IPv4/IPv6 prefixes or BGP communities into reusable modules. The feature simplifies management of complex hybrid and multi-cloud routing architectures, addressing customer demand for scalable, programmable control over network paths.
UpCloud has named its founder, Joel Pihlajamaa, as CEO, replacing Arno Schäfer in a planned transition. The move follows a period of revenue expansion and strategic positioning as a European sovereign cloud provider, with Pihlajamaa set to maintain the company’s engineering-driven approach while addressing regulatory and geopolitical demands for data residency.
AWS has introduced a cloud platform tailored for US defense contractors handling Secret-classified workloads, reducing setup time from months to days. The offering includes compliance alignment, funding initiatives, and early adoption by Northrop Grumman.
DigitalBridge and Japanese institutional investor JEXI have formed Nippon Gateway Infrastructure (NGI), a data center platform starting with facilities in Tokyo and Osaka acquired from NEC. The venture targets enterprise colocation amid rising demand for domestic capacity driven by AI, sovereignty, and resilience requirements.
Cloudflare has introduced finer-grained controls for AI-related traffic, allowing customers to distinguish between search crawlers, AI agents, and training bots. The update also includes protections for ad-monetized pages and is available to all users at no additional cost.