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The discovery and mitigation of AMD Zen CPU vulnerability aka Zenbleed

Yesterday, on the 24th of July 2023, Google Project Zero published their findings of a new flaw in AMD’s Zen 2 processors. The vulnerability titled ‘Zenbleed’ affects the entire Zen 2 product stack, from AMD’s EPYC data center processors to the Ryzen 3000 CPUs. It can be exploited to steal sensitive data stored in the […]

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Developing solutions for modern audiences – Launching UpCloud Managed Kubernetes

The use of Kubernetes is growing year after year, and the system is now the go-to tool for container orchestration.  We’re proud to launch UpCloud Managed Kubernetes, to help businesses enjoy all the benefits of using Kubernetes without any of the headaches of maintaining it. Every year, more and more businesses are adopting Kubernetes – […]

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Stony Brook University uses UpCloud to educate future Cloud developers

Cloud computing starts with people. Without passionate and qualified developers to set up, maintain and innovate within Cloud infrastructure, the sector would not have experienced rapid global growth over the last decade. Despite this, educational resources for Cloud computing remain rare or underdeveloped. Only a few institutions offer tailored courses for student developers to pick […]

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UpCloud joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation

In the past year, we have been working on many products and services like Managed Load Balancer, Hot Resizing, and Managed Redis Databases, that help customers to be more productive in their core business. Simplifying cloud infrastructure setup and management has been a large part of our development plans, not the least of which, Managed […]

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Building better user experience – Launching Managed Databases for Redis

Long response times or slow login experience in your webshop or application can drastically reduce sales. And as many would agree from personal experience, If the content is not delivered in a timely manner users will go elsewhere. To help improve your application performance in one go, we’ve been developing little something. Today I am […]

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New modern operating systems with improved security out of the box

Password strength has always been a concern for all internet-connected systems. Doubly so for any cloud servers with open service ports. If you’ve ever had a look at your Syslogs after deployment, many servers are immediately subjected to brute-force attacks straight from creation. For the longest time, the best advice has been to disable password […]

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Announcing new Cloud Server plans, improvements and pricing adjustments

Streamlining currency changes for customers Starting from January 1st 2023, we are changing our pricing currency from US Dollars (USD) to Euros (EUR) to bring our customers more benefits and reduce uncertainty. The majority of our current customers use Euro as a payment currency. We decided to make this change to bring three vital advantages […]

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Niloufar Viljanen and Annukka Piirala join UpCloud as Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer respectively

Niloufar Viljanen and Annukka Piirala have joined the UpCloud leadership team as chief marketing officer (CMO) and chief financial officer (CFO) reporting to our CEO Antti Vilpponen. Annukka brings a wealth of experience in consulting and auditing and has previous experience from PwC. She holds an accreditation as a Finnish Authorised Public Accountant. Annukka joined […]

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Introducing Managed Load Balancer to simplify the complexities of resilience

Load balancing is a true and tested method of building resilience and improving system throughput. However, it might not be quite that easy to implement or maintain for everyone, until now. To help anyone create a state-of-art frontend for their cloud services, we are excited to unveil a new carefree way to build resilience. Today we […]

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