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Amazon Web Services announced it cannot restore cloud infrastructure in Bahrain and part of the UAE, more than six months after drone strikes tied to the Iran war damaged the sites. AWS said the destruction exceeded what its systems were built to endure, permanently losing data and resources hosted exclusively there, while it continues trying to recover two other affected UAE zones.
The database maker Spacetime published a detailed breakdown of how it handles scaling, arguing that scalability splits into three separate dimensions: compute, storage, and networking. It says horizontally scalable storage is coming October 31, 2026, while networking and computation cannot always be scaled horizontally, especially for OLTP workloads with contending transactions.
Jim Cramer told CNBC viewers that most of the Magnificent Seven tech stocks—Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, Microsoft, Tesla and Nvidia—have underperformed the S&P 500 this year and now trade at unusually cheap valuations. He argued the group's earnings multiples have fallen out of step with their growth prospects, particularly Amazon, which he says is poised to benefit from heavy AI infrastructure spending under CEO Andy Jassy.
Reliance Jio has expanded its JioPC cloud computing service beyond its own broadband subscribers, making it available to anyone with an internet connection regardless of telecom provider. The service streams a virtual PC with up to eight virtual CPUs, 16GB RAM and 1TB storage, letting even computers up to eight years old run modern AI applications without hardware upgrades. Subscriptions range from about $11 for two months to roughly $53 for a full year of the higher-spec plan.
OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work on July 9th as a paid feature for $20+/month subscribers, and it actually comes in two forms: a cloud-based version accessible via chatgpt.com and mobile apps, and a local version built into the desktop app (formerly Codex) that can access files and run programs on a user's computer. The cloud version, described as the more interesting of the two, adds capabilities not found in standard ChatGPT Chat, including selection among multiple models and reasoning-effort levels.