Enterprise Technology & Cloud Services
Cloud infrastructure
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AWS US-EAST-1 Power Loss Impacts AI Compute Investments and Reliability Risks
Cloud infrastructure had a split-screen week: reliability risks surfaced in the most famous hyperscale region, while the AI boom kept rewriting what “capacity planning” even means. On one side, Amazon Web Services warned customers of an EC2 “impairment” in US-EAST-1 after a power loss tied to a...
May 7 – May 13, 2026
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