Uber entered the cloud with a Google Cloud partnership, reports Acceleration Economy.

In this Cloud Wars Minute, Bob Evans explains why Uber picked Google Cloud to partner with as the company moves out of the data center business, including comments from Google Cloud VP, Global Strategic Customers and Industries, Umesh Vemuri. 

Recent cloud outages highlight the importance of having site engineering for systems administrators, reports Network World.

Multiple Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) outages have hit users around the world this week, and coming after interruptions in Microsoft's cloud services last month, are a reminder of the importance of site engineering for systems administrators whose businesses rely on cloud-based mission critical applications.

To keep data secure in the cloud providers are switching to confidential computing, reports

The security of data in the cloud has prevented many companies from moving sensitive workloads to the cloud. But cloud providers and chip makers are hoping to tackle that concern with “confidential computing.”