Hacker News with Generative AI: Cloud Computing

Accelerating Docker Builds by Halving EC2 Boot Time (depot.dev)
We at Depot like making shit fast, whether that's Docker image builds, Github Actions runners, Bazel caching, Turborepo, or even our own infrastructure.
Docker, DevOps, Cloud Computing, Performance Optimization
16 points by Telstrom90 20 hours ago | 8 comments
'Close to impossible' for Europe to escape clutches of US hyperscalers (theregister.com)
European organizations wanting to break free of American cloud operators may find their hopes dashed, according to industry analysts, for a number of reasons including a sheer lack of datacenter capacity.
Cloud Computing, Europe, Tech Industry, Data Centers
7 points by rntn 23 hours ago | 0 comments
Ask HN: Pros and cons of offering a self-hosted version of your SaaS? (ycombinator.com)
I'm working on a SaaS product that simplifies credential collection for businesses. I'm debating whether to offer a self-hosted version alongside our cloud offering.
SaaS, Self-Hosting, Business, Cloud Computing
13 points by DavyCreddy 2 days ago | 4 comments
AWS Service Changes (amazon.com)
At AWS, we understand that the decision to end support for a service or feature significantly impacts customers. We approach such decisions only after careful consideration. When end of support is necessary, we provide customers detailed guidance on available alternatives and comprehensive support for migration, ensuring minimal disruption to customer operations.
Cloud Computing, AWS, End-of-Life Services
7 points by cherioo 2 days ago | 0 comments
A context-aware LLM agent built directly into Grafana Cloud (grafana.com)
Today, as part of the GrafanaCON 2025 keynote in Seattle, we previewed Grafana Assistant, our new LLM-powered agent in Grafana Cloud that helps you learn and solve problems in Grafana easier than ever.
Grafana, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing
22 points by matryer 3 days ago | 0 comments
Litestream: Revamped (fly.io)
Litestream is an open-source tool that makes it possible to run many kinds of full-stack applications on top of SQLite by making them reliably recoverable from object storage. This is a post about the biggest change we’ve made to it since I launched it.
Open Source, Databases, Software, Cloud Computing
447 points by usrme 3 days ago | 96 comments
The Lost Decade of Small Data? (duckdb.org)
TL;DR: We benchmark DuckDB on a 2012 MacBook Pro to decide: did we lose a decade chasing distributed architectures for data analytics?
Data Analytics, Databases, Performance, Big Data, Cloud Computing
3 points by oli200110 3 days ago | 0 comments
Gemma 3n preview: Mobile-first AI (googleblog.com)
Following the exciting launches of Gemma 3 and Gemma 3 QAT, our family of state-of-the-art open models capable of running on a single cloud or desktop accelerator, we're pushing our vision for accessible AI even further.
Artificial Intelligence, Mobile, Open Source, Cloud Computing
436 points by meetpateltech 3 days ago | 159 comments
Tell HN: The Hetzner Experience - Invisible Outages (ycombinator.com)
I'm a DevOps engineer at Schäfer Shop GmbH, and we've been running into recurring quirks with Hetzner's cloud infrastructure.
Cloud Computing, DevOps, Infrastructure, Hetzner
36 points by AmazingTurtle 3 days ago | 12 comments
Scanner – The Team Accelerating Log Analysis with Rust (filtra.io)
Scanner is a petabyte scale log search and storage tool. We basically do log search and analysis at very, very large scales for cloud-specific architectures. The way we currently brand it right now is as a “diet Splunk.” It's a product that's ten times cheaper than Splunk and significantly faster than Splunk. In exchange, it doesn't have a lot of the long tail features that Splunk has. That's the current trade-off.
Rust, Cloud Computing, Log Analysis, Data Storage, Open Source
8 points by arconis987 3 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Claude Code in the Cloud (cloudcoding.ai)
Code the Thing that Codes the Thing
Cloud Computing, AI, Programming
31 points by sean_ 4 days ago | 7 comments
Self-Hosting Moose with Docker Compose, Redis, Temporal, Redpanda and ClickHouse (fiveonefour.com)
Deploying a Moose application with all its dependencies can be challenging and time-consuming. You need to properly configure multiple services, ensure they communicate with each other, and manage their lifecycle.
Docker, Microservices, Cloud Computing, DevOps, Databases
49 points by Callicles 4 days ago | 15 comments
Terraform MCP Server (github.com/hashicorp)
The Terraform MCP Server is a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides seamless integration with Terraform Registry APIs, enabling advanced automation and interaction capabilities for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) development.
Terraform, Cloud Computing, API, Automation
104 points by kesor 4 days ago | 20 comments
xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure (techcrunch.com)
Microsoft on Monday became one of the first hyperscalers to provide managed access to Grok, the AI model developed by billionaire Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI.
Artificial Intelligence, Microsoft, Cloud Computing, Business, New Releases
162 points by mfiguiere 4 days ago | 193 comments
Fabric Is Just Plain Unreliable, and Microsoft's Hiding It (brentozar.com)
Last week, Microsoft Fabric went down yet again for hours on multiple continents.
Software, Microsoft, Cloud Computing, Reliability
117 points by ko_pivot 4 days ago | 12 comments
Going to the cloud' could also mean locking into a forever sub-contractor (berthub.eu)
The very brief version: “going to the cloud” can mean renting services/servers that you could get from anywhere. There’s little lock-in. The same four words “going to the cloud” might also mean locking your operations to a specific cloud provider, whose proprietary services will now be part of your business processes “forever”. Be specific which variant of cloud you are signing off on!
Cloud Computing, Technology, Business, Vendor Lock-in
5 points by kimi 4 days ago | 0 comments
Show HN: Appwrite Sites – the open-source vercel alternative (appwrite.io)
This is Appwrite's biggest release to date, and it will change the way you build with Appwrite forever. Develop, deploy, and scale your applications directly from Appwrite. Your all-in-one cloud platform.
Open Source, Web Development, Cloud Computing, App Development, Alternatives
44 points by eldad_fux 4 days ago | 22 comments
Show HN: Forge – Secure, Multi-Tenant GitHub Actions Runners on K8s or EC2 (github.com/cisco-open)
Forge is a scalable, secure, and fully automated multi-tenant platform for running ephemeral GitHub Actions runners on AWS — designed for platform teams, by platform engineers.
GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, DevOps, Cloud Computing, Security
12 points by ebrilhante 4 days ago | 5 comments
Augmented Coding: Better with Principles (jessitron.com)
Today I opened the AWS console in order to transcribe a video, and I could not be bothered to do all that clicking.
Augmented Coding, Programming Principles, Cloud Computing, AWS
10 points by ingve 5 days ago | 0 comments
Xata: Postgres at scale, with copy-on-write branching and anonymization (xata.io)
Relaunching Xata as "Postgres at scale". A Postgres platform with Copy-on-Write branching, data masking, and separation of storage from compute.
Databases, Postgres, Data Management, Cloud Computing, Security
45 points by mebcitto 6 days ago | 16 comments
Outlook stores email in Microsoft Cloud – what you need to know (runbox.com)
Many of our users have long relied on Outlook as their email client, but recent changes to how data is managed raise important privacy and control concerns.
Email, Privacy, Microsoft, Cloud Computing, Data Management
17 points by Sami_Lehtinen 6 days ago | 1 comments
Google worried it couldn't control how Israel uses Project Nimbus, files reveal (theintercept.com)
Before signing its lucrative and controversial Project Nimbus deal with Israel, Google knew it couldn’t control what the nation and its military would do with the powerful cloud-computing technology, a confidential internal report obtained by The Intercept reveals.
Cloud Computing, Google, Israel, Government, Military
69 points by zhengiszen 6 days ago | 20 comments
AWS says Britain needs more nuclear power to feed AI datacenter surge (theregister.com)
The UK needs more nuclear energy generation just to power all the AI datacenters that are going to be built, according to the head of Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Nuclear Power, AI, Data Centers, Cloud Computing, Energy
11 points by rntn 7 days ago | 5 comments
The One-Way Door of AWS Transform: A Secret 24-Month Lock-Up (lastweekinaws.com)
AWS Transform has just hit General Availability, and it claims to migrate Mainframe, .NET, and VMware workloads via the power of GenAI.
AWS, Generative AI, Cloud Computing, Migration, Software
7 points by shscs911 7 days ago | 1 comments
Grafana Assistant, a context-aware LLM agent built into Grafana Cloud (grafana.com)
Today, as part of the GrafanaCON 2025 keynote in Seattle, we previewed Grafana Assistant, our new LLM-powered agent in Grafana Cloud that helps you learn and solve problems in Grafana easier than ever.
Grafana, Cloud Computing, Monitoring, Artificial Intelligence
6 points by vidamon 8 days ago | 0 comments
Managed Inference and Agents is now Generally Available (heroku.com)
Many of the most exciting experiences we’re beginning to rely on every day are powered by AI; whether it’s conversational assistants, personalized recommendations or code generation, these experiences are powered by inference systems and intelligent agents.
Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing, Machine Learning
24 points by anush-dsouza 8 days ago | 0 comments
Launch HN: Tinfoil (YC X25): Verifiable Privacy for Cloud AI (ycombinator.com)
Hello HN! We’re Tanya, Sacha, Jules and Nate from Tinfoil: https://tinfoil.sh. We host models and AI workloads on the cloud while guaranteeing zero data access and retention. This lets us run open-source LLMs like Llama, or Deepseek R1 on cloud GPUs without you having to trust us—or any cloud provider—with private data.
Privacy, Cloud Computing, Generative AI, Open Source, AI Workloads
146 points by FrasiertheLion 8 days ago | 100 comments
Ask HN: What's your go-to message queue in 2025? (ycombinator.com)
The space is confusing to say the least.<p>Message queues are usually a core part of any distributed architecture, and the options are endless: Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, Redis Streams, SQS, ZeroMQ... and then there's the “just use Postgres” camp for simpler use cases.<p>I’m trying to make sense of the tradeoffs between:<p>- async fire-and-forget pub/sub vs. sync RPC-like point to point communication<p>- simple FIFO vs. priority queues and delay queues<p>- intelligent brokers (e.g. RabbitMQ, NATS with filters) vs. minimal brokers (e.g.
Messaging Systems, Software Architecture, Distributed Systems, Programming, Cloud Computing
65 points by enether 8 days ago | 97 comments
Postgres with data branching and PII anonymization (xata.io)
Relaunching Xata as "Postgres at scale". A Postgres platform with Copy-on-Write branching, data masking, and separation of storage from compute.
Postgres, Databases, Data Management, Anonymization, Cloud Computing
13 points by simonklee 8 days ago | 4 comments
Bing Search APIs will be retired on August 11, 2025 (microsoft.com)
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APIs, Microsoft, Azure, Cloud Computing
4 points by croes 8 days ago | 1 comments