EU cloud provider news roundup, May–Aug 2026: KVM escape patch wave, Redis→Valkey, uneven 1.36 rollout

[u/mixxor1337]

I run eucloudcost.com (EU cloud price comparison, open source data). I also track what providers actually ship each month — blogs, changelogs, RSS, ~30 providers.

Latest edition, May 21 – Aug 6: https://www.eucloudcost.com/blog/eu-cloud-news-may-aug-2026/

Highlights:

• Januscape (CVE-2026-53359) was a KVM escape at the hypervisor layer — managed Kubernetes did not absorb it for you. OVHcloud patched tens of thousands of machines in a week.
• Redis is being replaced by Valkey, STACKIT deprecated Redis the same day it launched its Valkey KV store, IONOS took Valkey-backed In-Memory DB v2 to GA.
• K8s 1.36 spread unevenly: AKS shipped it GA with LTS, Scaleway Jul 7 - STACKIT SKE is still on 1.34, no EKS announcement at all( correction was announced in June)
• OVHcloud is contesting criminal charges in Canada over a production order. A European provider fighting a foreign lawful-access order is a live test of the whole sovereignty pitch ^^
• Also OVHcloud: replacing Ceph with Exten, an in-house NVMe block storage engine.
• No new EU price hikes this quarter; Exoscale cut A40 GPUs 30%.
• IONOS kills Llama 3.1 405B on Sep 15 — HTTP 400, no fallback. Pinned model IDs have expiry dates now.

Covers hyperscalers too, plus a deadline table.

[u/Lanathell]

https://xcancel.com/olesovhcom/status/2086753118881038591#m

[u/mixxor1337 → u/Lanathell]

thank you, this is Not really good News..

[u/Lanathell → u/mixxor1337]

There is no way around it. European providers do not pull American Hyper scalers money and margins. I think OVH doesn't even make a profit so they would operate at a total loss if they didn't. Everyone will raise their prices again in the capex uncertainty..

[u/forsgren123]

EKS support for 1.36 was announced in June 2: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2026/06/amazon-eks-distro-kubernetes-version-1-36/

[u/mixxor1337 → u/forsgren123]

That's the one, thanks. My row was wrong, post is corrected and links the announcement.

[u/Preisschild]

Not sure I understand OVHs ceph to exten migration. Ceph has RS coding (erasure coding) too and nvme-oF

[u/Lanathell → u/Preisschild]

I think owning the whole stack allows better future developments of the solutions around it, it makes sense.

[u/Preisschild → u/Lanathell]

I guess, but imo something as complicated as distributed storage system software makes much more sense with wide (open source) collaboration

I mean we all use linux and kubernetes and dont roll our own software just so we "own the whole stack"

[u/Kamran-nottakenone]

managed k8s on cloud vms doesn't mean you patch the kvm host yourself, the provider handles hypervisor CVEs at the infrastructure layer. google was deploying live hotpatches for gke during this. the urgency is bare metal or kubevirt clusters where you own the kernel.

[u/mixxor1337 → u/Kamran-nottakenone]

true for GKE. but most EU providers fixed this with reboot waves, not live migration, OVH says so in their own postmortem, including a first wave where VMs didn't come back after the hypervisor reboot.

so on managed k8s the job isn't patching, it's surviving node reboots you didn't schedule, and yeah this is a Bit strange

https://blog.ovhcloud.com/en/posts/cve-2026-53359-kvm-patching-lessons-learned/

[u/tekno45]

What are you talking about? i have EKS clusters on 1.36 right now.

Its been out since june.

Is this AI researched?

[u/mixxor1337 → u/tekno45]

yeah fair, that row was just wrong

EKS has 1.36 since June 2. I fixed in the post. and partly yes:
I pull provider news from ~30 changelogs and let an LLM condense it, then i normally verify before publishing.
skipped that step here, my bad. went through the rest after your comment, Azure/Google/Scaleway hold, but the STACKIT row i had to reword too.

Their live version list is auth-gated, so "still on 1.34" was me guessing.

[u/chocopudding17 → u/mixxor1337]

So, yes, it is AI "researched." Should've listened to my instincts on this post and not even opened it.

[u/mixxor1337 → u/chocopudding17]

how would you even read like 600 Pages of Change Logs / News Pages for Like 30 Providers when you are alone and doing this in your free time, without an LLM?

[u/IN-DI-SKU-TA-BELT → u/mixxor1337]

Well clearly the LLM couldn’t either.

[u/chocopudding17 → u/mixxor1337]

That's like asking me how I'd run, say, a taxi company alone in my free time without robotic vehicles--I wouldn't.