Akamai signed a $1.8B AI compute contract and surged 26% after earnings. Cloudflare beat estimates and fell roughly 16% on layoffs and a Q2 guidance miss. Same night, same market, opposite verdict on where infrastructure value lies in 2026.

DigitalOcean launched Inference Engine on April 28 with four AI pricing tiers, Blackwell Ultra hardware in Richmond, and $120M in AI annualized revenue growing 150% year-over-year.

Ayaz Ahmed Khan of DigitalOcean explains how Cloudways Copilot reduces infrastructure troubleshooting from 30-40 minutes to 5-6 minutes, what the preview period taught the team, and where automated diagnosis still falls short.

DigitalOcean has launched its Spaces Object Storage in the London data center (LON1). This makes it easier for users in the UK and Europe to store their data locally, improving speed and access for their customers.

Cloudways Autonomous stands as a hosting platform built upon Kubernetes (GKE) infrastructure, which automatically scales in response to website traffic fluctuations, obviating the need for human intervention.

OVHcloud is just launching its first two Local Zones in Europe. However, plans go further and by 2026 they want to have as many as 150 Local Zones of their own. We check it out and compare it to the competitor.