Scaleway by way of their Scaleway Labs group recently launched the Elastic Metal RV1 (EM-RV1) as the world's first RISC-V servers available in the cloud. These RISC-V cloud servers are built around the T-Head 1520 SoC and are an interesting way to explore the RISC-V architecture and/or otherwise make use of RISC-V for CI/CD deployments or other testing purposes

Tenable's Cloud Security Research team has unearthed a series of attacks by the Kinsing malware family, particularly targeting Linux-based cloud infrastructures. In a new development, these malicious programmes are now exploiting Apache Tomcat servers, adopting new advanced stealth techniques for file system penetration and persistence. Kinsing, a malware family operational for numerous years, primarily attacks Linux-based cloud infrastructure.

Amazon Web Services (AWS) today confirmed plans to launch its European sovereign cloud, aiming to enhance data residency and security across the EU. The city of Bradenburg in Germany will be the first region to host the cloud servers, which are set to power upby the end of 2025. AWS will invest 7.8bn through 2040