Snowflake Commits $6B to AWS Graviton and Agentic AI Workloads
Snowflake signed a $6B five-year AWS deal on May 27, 2026, anchored on Graviton CPUs plus GPUs for Cortex AI and agentic enterprise workloads.
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Iran Struck AWS Bahrain Inside Batelco HQ — Cloud Disruption, Telegram Down, What It Means
Iran struck Batelco HQ in Bahrain on April 1, damaging Amazon Web Services infrastructure. Telegram disrupted. First confirmed kinetic hit on named US tech company post-threat.
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Iran Already Struck AWS in the Gulf: What Azure UAE Faces Next
Iran drone-struck 3 AWS data centers in UAE and Bahrain on March 1, 2026, wiping two availability zones. Here is what Azure UAE North and Google Cloud face if IRGC acts on its April 1 deadline.
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How JioHotstar Streams IPL 2026 to 65 Million Concurrent Viewers on AWS
JioHotstar hit 65.2 million concurrent viewers during India vs England T20 2026 — a world record. Here is the AWS EKS architecture, multi-CDN strategy, and 800+ microservices powering IPL 2026.
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IPL's $6.2 Billion Broadcast Deal and the AWS Infrastructure Behind It
IPL 2023-27 rights sold for ₹48,390 crore ($6.2B) — the world's 2nd most valuable sports property per match after the NFL. Here is how JioStar built the AWS infrastructure to justify every rupee.
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Microsoft Threatens to Sue OpenAI Over $50B Amazon Deal: The Full Breakdown
Microsoft is weighing legal action after OpenAI made AWS the exclusive cloud for its Frontier agent platform — a $50B deal that may breach the Azure exclusivity contract Sam Altman signed.
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Iran Drones Hit 3 AWS Data Centers in UAE and Bahrain: Cloud Infrastructure Goes to War
Iranian drones struck three Amazon Web Services facilities in the UAE and Bahrain on March 1 2026 — the first military attack on a hyperscaler in history. Banks, payments, and enterprise apps went down.
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AWS and Cerebras Build Disaggregated Inference to Beat Nvidia at Speed
AWS and Cerebras announced a disaggregated inference architecture combining AWS Trainium and Cerebras CS-3 chips on Amazon Bedrock, claiming order-of-magnitude faster AI inference than GPUs.
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Iran Struck AWS and Listed 29 Tech Targets Including Google and Nvidia
Iran hit AWS data centers in UAE and Bahrain on March 1 with Shahed drones. The IRGC then listed 29 locations including Google, Microsoft, and Nvidia as next targets.
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When AWS Middle East Went Dark: Architecture Lessons From the Drone Strikes and Why India Must Be Your Failover Region
Iranian drone strikes on AWS UAE and Bahrain availability zones in March 2026 disrupted more than 109 services. This post breaks down what actually failed, why single-region architectures were hit hardest, and how to design India-based multi-region failover for Gulf workloads.
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Your Cloud Region Just Went Offline: What Happens Next
AWS UAE went offline in March 2026. Most developers had no tested failover. Here is the complete guide: RTO, RPO, active-passive vs active-active.
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Hackers Used a React Frontend Vulnerability to Break Into LexisNexis AWS Infrastructure. 400K Users Exposed Including Federal Judges.
The LexisNexis data breach exploited a React2Shell vulnerability to pivot into AWS infrastructure, exposing 53 plaintext AWS Secrets Manager credentials and 400K user profiles including federal judges and DOJ staff. Here is how the attack worked.
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Vercel vs Docker vs AWS: Which Should You Actually Deploy On in 2026?
Not a generic comparison — a decision framework. When Vercel's zero-config is worth it, when Docker buys you control you actually need, and when AWS stops being overkill. With real cost breakdowns.
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