Cloud computing

Zhongji Innolight picks banks for one of Hong Kong’s biggest listings

The company’s Shenzhen shares surge 237% since June, lifting its 2025 gain to 300%

OpenAI will begin using Amazon Web Services immediately, with all planned capacity set to come online by the end of 2026 and room to expand further in 2027 and beyond.

OpenAI, Amazon strike US$38 billion agreement for ChatGPT maker to use AWS

The deal is among the first major moves by OpenAI since it completed a restructuring last week

Microsoft is struggling to secure enough cloud capacity to fully satisfy demand for its Azure services.

Microsoft signs US$9.7 billion AI cloud deal with Australia’s IREN to secure Nvidia systems

Once fully implemented, the deal is expected to generate about US$1.94 billion a year for IREN

The bug, which began at 1600 GMT, affected Azure Front Door, the company’s content delivery network service that is used by enterprise customers to optimise application performance.

Microsoft cloud customers face widespread disruptions

MICROSOFT cloud customers experienced widespread service disruptions on Wednesday after the company said “inadvertent configuration change” affected its widely used Azure service.

Google is a previous investor in, and cloud provider for, Anthropic.

Anthropic, Google in talks on cloud deal worth tens of billions

Amazon.com has also invested billions in the startup and provided computing power

AWS provides on-demand computing power, data storage and other digital services to companies, governments and individuals.

Internet services cut for hours by Amazon cloud outage

Crypto exchange Coinbase, as well as games Fortnite and Roblox, were among those affected

Megaspeed's office is located at Ocean Financial Centre.

Megaspeed, Singapore firm at centre of US Nvidia chip probe, goes dark

[SINGAPORE] The streets outside the Central Business District were bustling with the lunchtime crowd. But on the seventh floor of Ocean Financial Centre, one office stood out for its silence.

The rapid surge in demand for AI is igniting a regional race to expand data centre capacity. Yet, not all AI workloads are best served in such environments.

The critical edge for AI in Singapore

Pairing the power of centralised data centres with speed and efficiency of local compute can maximise Republic’s potential in the technology

Nearly nine in 10 enterprises across the region now rely on multiple public cloud providers, according to the International Data Corporation, with this reliance highlighting the cloud’s central role in business agility and scale.

Cloud sovereignty in Asia-Pacific: Rethinking strategies in a volatile geopolitical era

The future of the cloud in the region will be defined not by who can scale the fastest, but by who can build the most secure infrastructure in the face of volatility

Cloud vendors have generally operated their own data centres, but Microsoft is struggling to bring sufficient computing capacity online.

Microsoft bets US$33 billion on neoclouds like Nebius to ease AI crunch: sources

The strategy is aimed at coping with a shortage of AI data centre capacity