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Cloudflare’s latest findings show the Aisuru botnet reshaping the DDoS threat landscape with unprecedented speed and scale. Now commanding up to 4 million compromised devices, Aisuru has unleashed dozens of daily hyper-volumetric attacks, including a 29.7 Tbps blast that set a new record. Its rise comes as network-layer assaults surge worldwide, leaving on-demand mitigation tools struggling to respond before attacks burn out in minutes.

Vultr is pushing deeper into the AI infrastructure race with a massive GPU build-out in Springfield, Ohio, anchored by 24,000 new AMD Instinct MI355X accelerators. The project signals a broader shift toward alternative GPU ecosystems and rack-scale designs as cloud providers chase cost-efficient compute. Backed by local economic agencies, the campus positions Ohio as an unexpected anchor in the growing geography of U.S. AI capacity.

Switzerland’s data protection authorities have raised sharp concerns over how government agencies rely on global cloud providers for handling sensitive information. In a new resolution, privatim warned that international SaaS platforms expose citizen data to legal uncertainty, weak encryption standards, and foreign access laws. The group urged agencies to use external clouds only when they fully control encryption keys—an expectation that most major providers currently cannot meet.

Mythics is deepening its multi-cloud capabilities as more enterprises push Oracle workloads beyond a single hyperscaler. The company now supports Oracle’s AI Database services across Google Cloud, AWS, Azure, and OCI, giving organizations wider control over performance and modernization efforts. By focusing on data mobility and cross-cloud integration, Mythics is helping both public and private sector teams shift from legacy systems to flexible architectures built for AI-driven growth.

Lumen Technologies is extending its security reach into AWS by offering Defender Managed Rules on AWS Marketplace, giving enterprises direct access to the same threat intelligence that safeguards its global network. The move lets customers apply continuously updated rules from Black Lotus Labs to their AWS Network Firewalls, helping them intercept attacks earlier in the kill chain and reduce exposure without adding new infrastructure or operational weight.

Amazon Web Services introduced its new DevOps Agent, an AI-driven tool that helps engineers pinpoint outage causes far faster than traditional workflows. The system analyzes signals from platforms like Datadog and Dynatrace, then assigns investigative tasks to specialized agents. Early testers, including Commonwealth Bank of Australia, say it cuts diagnosis time dramatically. AWS aims to give on-call teams a clearer picture before they even join an incident call.