2025 was a pivotal year for Azure Storage, and we’re heading into 2026 with a clear focus on helping customers turn AI into real impact. 2025 was a pivotal year for Azure Storage, and we’re heading into 2026 with a clear focus on helping customers turn AI into real impact. As outlined in last December’s … Read more
China’s cloud market is entering a new phase, shaped less by core storage and more by who can support large AI workloads at scale. Established providers still dominate, but the list of serious contenders is starting to change. ByteDance, long associated with consumer apps like TikTok and Douyin, is now making more significant inroads into … Read more
Migrating between tenants is often seen as a purely technical task. In fact, this is one of the most sensitive management operations in modern cloud environments. When organizations move data between tenants, they transfer content and redefine how identities, permissions, applications, and collaboration models interact. For enterprise IT teams, this makes migration between clients a … Read more
Today, we are announcing the general availability of Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) G7e instances, which provide cost-effective performance for generative AI workloads and peak performance for graphics workloads. G7e instances are accelerated by NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition GPUs and are suitable for a wide range of GPU-enabled workloads, including spatial … Read more
The cloud is not considered a place for experimentation. For many enterprises, it has become the default environment for running artificial intelligence systems that support daily work. This shift, more than any headline figure, explains why cloud spending continues to grow. Instead of short trials or isolated pilots, AI workloads are now tied to core … Read more
At the end of 2025, I was happy to take a long break to enjoy the incredible summers that the southern hemisphere has to offer. I’m back writing my first post in 2026, which is also my last post for the AWS News blog (more on that later). The AWS community is starting the year … Read more
Since previewing at AWS re:Invent 2025, we are announcing the general availability of new memory-optimized Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) X8i instances. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors with a sustained 3.9GHz all-core turbo frequency only available on AWS. These certified SAP instances provide the highest performance and fastest memory … Read more
A new category of organizations is emerging that incorporates AI into all layers of their operations – accelerating delivery, scaling efficiently and unlocking new business potential. A new category of organizations is emerging that incorporates AI into all layers of their operations – accelerating delivery, scaling efficiently and unlocking new business potential. These companies are … Read more
Shifting geopolitical, technological and legislative pressures mean that 2026 is forecast to be a key year for cloud strategy in the UK as repatriation becomes mainstream. The trend is already accelerating, with a greater focus on data sovereignty due to growing concerns. According to Pulsant, a UK-based provider of digital edge infrastructure, businesses will reassess … Read more
For many European organizations, cloud decisions are no longer just about cost, scale or performance. As companies evaluate options like Amazon’s sovereign cloud, choices are increasingly shaped by questions of control: where data is housed, who has access to it, and how critical systems are exposed to foreign laws and political pressure. This tension helps … Read more