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World news
fromTheregister
5 days ago

Microsoft hints at bit bunkers for war zones

Microsoft is redesigning datacenters in conflict-prone regions due to Iranian attacks targeting Middle Eastern facilities linked to US military operations.
Tech industry
fromTheregister
3 days ago

Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent

Microsoft is reducing Windows 365 cloud PC prices by 20% to enhance cost-effectiveness for small and medium businesses starting May 1st.
European startups
fromTheregister
1 week ago

Microsoft to face CMA scrutiny over cloud software licensing

The UK's competition watchdog is investigating Microsoft's licensing policies for reducing competition in the cloud market.
World news
fromTheregister
5 days ago

Microsoft hints at bit bunkers for war zones

Microsoft is redesigning datacenters in conflict-prone regions due to Iranian attacks targeting Middle Eastern facilities linked to US military operations.
Tech industry
fromTheregister
3 days ago

Microsoft cuts cloudy desktop prices by 20 percent

Microsoft is reducing Windows 365 cloud PC prices by 20% to enhance cost-effectiveness for small and medium businesses starting May 1st.
European startups
fromTheregister
1 week ago

Microsoft to face CMA scrutiny over cloud software licensing

The UK's competition watchdog is investigating Microsoft's licensing policies for reducing competition in the cloud market.
DevOps
fromTechzine Global
5 hours ago

Cloudflare introduces new features for building and deploying agents

Cloudflare is transforming AI development with Dynamic Workers, Sandboxes, and Artifacts for secure, scalable, and efficient code execution.
Careers
fromwww.businessinsider.com
6 hours ago

The future may be 'frustrating' for engineers seeking a 'pure software development career,' AWS VP says

Junior software engineers may increasingly engage with customers rather than solely focusing on coding in isolation.
Software development
fromTechCrunch
58 minutes ago

Microsoft is working on yet another OpenClaw-like agent | TechCrunch

Microsoft is testing OpenClaw-like features for its Microsoft 365 Copilot tool aimed at enterprise customers with enhanced security controls.
fromTechzine Global
6 hours ago

Commvault launches AI tools for secure agentic AI era

"In agentic environments, agents mutate state across data, systems, and configurations in ways that compound fast and are hard to trace," says Pranay Ahlawat, Chief Technology and AI Officer at Commvault.
Information security
Healthcare
fromTheregister
10 hours ago

NHS pays 46K to prep next Microsoft licensing round

NHS England is investing £46,000 in benchmarking services to prepare for upcoming software licensing negotiations.
#amazon-luna
Video games
fromEngadget
3 days ago

Amazon Luna ends support for third-party subscriptions and game purchases

Amazon is discontinuing third-party integrations on Luna, affecting subscriptions and game access.
Games
fromThe Verge
3 days ago

Amazon Luna axes third-party game purchases

Amazon Luna will restrict access to only its subscription games, removing third-party purchases and subscriptions by June 2026.
Video games
fromKotaku
3 days ago

Amazon Luna Removing Paid Games And Offering No Refunds

Amazon Luna is removing game purchases and third-party subscriptions, making previously bought games unplayable after June without refunds.
Video games
fromEngadget
3 days ago

Amazon Luna ends support for third-party subscriptions and game purchases

Amazon is discontinuing third-party integrations on Luna, affecting subscriptions and game access.
Games
fromThe Verge
3 days ago

Amazon Luna axes third-party game purchases

Amazon Luna will restrict access to only its subscription games, removing third-party purchases and subscriptions by June 2026.
Video games
fromKotaku
3 days ago

Amazon Luna Removing Paid Games And Offering No Refunds

Amazon Luna is removing game purchases and third-party subscriptions, making previously bought games unplayable after June without refunds.
#saas
Tech industry
from24/7 Wall St.
4 days ago

The SaaS-Pocalypse's Biggest Losers: Figma, Duolingo, and Monday.com Suffer Brutal Meltdowns

AI advancements have significantly impacted software-as-a-service stocks, leading to substantial declines in major companies like Figma, Duolingo, and Monday.com.
Tech industry
from24/7 Wall St.
4 days ago

The SaaS-Pocalypse's Biggest Losers: Figma, Duolingo, and Monday.com Suffer Brutal Meltdowns

AI advancements have significantly impacted software-as-a-service stocks, leading to substantial declines in major companies like Figma, Duolingo, and Monday.com.
#amazon
Tech industry
fromTheregister
3 days ago

AWS ponders selling its home-grown chips by the rack-load

Amazon's chip business could generate ~$50 billion annually if sold independently, highlighting significant demand and growth potential.
DevOps
fromwww.businessinsider.com
3 days ago

Amazon creates 'Project Houdini' to make data center delays disappear

Amazon's Project Houdini aims to speed up data center construction by moving processes to factories, addressing AI demand and capacity constraints.
Television
fromCBR
3 days ago

Say Goodbye to a Major Streaming Service as Prime Video Phaseout Begins

Prime Video replaces its Ad Free plan with a new, improved Ultra plan featuring higher pricing and enhanced streaming options.
#cloud-computing
Higher education
fromInfoWorld
3 days ago

Cloud degrees are moving online

Accredited online cloud computing degrees are expanding, reducing costs and providing practical value for students and employers.
DevOps
fromInfoWorld
1 week ago

Enterprises demand cloud value

Businesses are shifting from cost-cutting to establishing centers of excellence and finops to enhance ROI in cloud investments.
DevOps
fromInfoWorld
2 weeks ago

Edge clouds and local data centers reshape IT

Cloud computing is evolving towards a selectively distributed model to address latency, sovereignty, and resilience in smart cities and AI applications.
Higher education
fromInfoWorld
3 days ago

Cloud degrees are moving online

Accredited online cloud computing degrees are expanding, reducing costs and providing practical value for students and employers.
DevOps
fromInfoWorld
1 week ago

Enterprises demand cloud value

Businesses are shifting from cost-cutting to establishing centers of excellence and finops to enhance ROI in cloud investments.
DevOps
fromInfoWorld
2 weeks ago

Edge clouds and local data centers reshape IT

Cloud computing is evolving towards a selectively distributed model to address latency, sovereignty, and resilience in smart cities and AI applications.
Marketing tech
fromTechzine Global
3 days ago

ServiceNow makes its entire portfolio AI-native for every customer

ServiceNow is integrating AI into its entire product portfolio, eliminating separate AI licenses and introducing the Context Engine for enhanced decision-making.
European startups
fromTNW | Finance
4 days ago

BILL lets enterprise suppliers collect from any SMB, even ones not on its platform

BILL's Supplier Payments Plus now allows enterprise suppliers to accept payments from any SMB customer, streamlining payment processes and reducing collection times.
fromKotaku
4 days ago

Amazon Issues A Stark Reminder That Digital Ownership Is A Lie

Amazon has informed Kindle owners that any e-readers from 2012 and earlier will no longer be supported as of May 20, 2026. Users can still read downloaded books but cannot purchase new ones, and a factory reset will render the device unusable.
Gadgets
#aws
fromInfoQ
20 hours ago
DevOps

AWS Launches Sustainability Console with API Access and Scope 1-3 Emissions Reporting

DevOps
fromInfoQ
20 hours ago

AWS Launches Sustainability Console with API Access and Scope 1-3 Emissions Reporting

AWS launched a Sustainability console for consolidated carbon emissions reporting with enhanced access and API features.
DevOps
fromTheregister
4 days ago

AWS: Agents shouldn't be secret, so we built a registry

AWS Agent Registry enhances visibility and control over AI agents in corporate environments.
DevOps
fromTechzine Global
3 days ago

AWS launches Agent Registry for managing AI agents

AWS introduces the Agent Registry to centralize AI agent management and reduce chaos in organizations deploying numerous agents.
DevOps
fromInfoWorld
3 days ago

AWS targets AI agent sprawl with new Bedrock Agent Registry

AWS introduces Agent Registry to help enterprises manage and govern AI agents effectively.
DevOps
fromTheregister
4 days ago

AWS put a file system on S3; I stress-tested it

AWS S3 Files allows mounting S3 buckets as NFS shares, providing solid conflict resolution and cost-effective storage options.
Information security
from24/7 Wall St.
3 days ago

The "SaaS-Pocalypse" Continues: Cloudflare, ServiceNow, CrowdStrike Under Fire as Anthropic Rewrites the Rules

The release of Anthropic's AI security product has significantly impacted investor confidence in enterprise software companies, leading to sharp stock declines.
Tech industry
fromTheregister
2 days ago

Salesforce is taking on ServiceNow in ITSM. The winner is AI

Salesforce's ITSM product is gaining traction, with some customers switching from ServiceNow, but it still holds a small market share.
Television
fromCBR
3 days ago

Prime Video Just Won the Streaming Wars as Amazon Absorbs Apple TV Content

Prime Video partners with Apple TV, integrating its content as an add-on subscription for enhanced streaming options.
Marketing tech
fromHubspot
in 4 months

AEO strategy for SaaS: 6 tactics that convert prospects into trials

AEO strategy is crucial for SaaS companies to enhance visibility in AI-driven search environments.
#devops
fromDevOps.com
15 hours ago
DevOps

Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities - DevOps.com

DevOps.com is launching a weekly jobs report to highlight opportunities for DevOps professionals.
DevOps
fromInfoWorld
6 days ago

What enterprise devops teams should learn from SaaS

Enterprise devops teams can enhance resiliency by adopting practices from SaaS providers, focusing on robust testing, monitoring, and seamless upgrades.
DevOps
fromDevOps.com
15 hours ago

Ten Great DevOps Job Opportunities - DevOps.com

DevOps.com is launching a weekly jobs report to highlight opportunities for DevOps professionals.
DevOps
fromInfoWorld
6 days ago

What enterprise devops teams should learn from SaaS

Enterprise devops teams can enhance resiliency by adopting practices from SaaS providers, focusing on robust testing, monitoring, and seamless upgrades.
Marketing tech
fromComputerworld
4 days ago

The top priority for Adobe's next CEO? Prepping for the 'age of agents'

Adobe's next CEO must navigate the transition to real-world agentic AI and reshape the company's strategy and products.
EU data protection
fromTNW | Offers
2 weeks ago

Automate ISO 27001, SOC 2, & DORA compliance from 2,999/year

Compliance is essential, but traditional methods are inefficient; automation can significantly reduce workload and improve effectiveness.
#ai
Artificial intelligence
from24/7 Wall St.
2 days ago

Anthropic's Just Triggered Another SaaS Sell-Off: Are Software Stocks Uninvestable?

Anthropic's Claude Managed Agents threaten SaaS stocks, causing significant market losses and raising concerns about the future of the sector.
DevOps
fromDevOps.com
3 days ago

CloudBees Delivers on AI Promise to Improve Application Testing - DevOps.com

CloudBees Smart Tests uses AI to prioritize tests, reducing CI/CD processing time significantly.
fromSilicon Canals
6 days ago

When militaries share data centers with banks: how Gulf strikes exposed a structural flaw in global cloud infrastructure - Silicon Canals

When civilian banks, logistics platforms, and payment processors share physical data center infrastructure with military AI systems, those facilities become legitimate military targets under international humanitarian law - and the civilian services housed inside lose their legal protection.
Information security
Business intelligence
fromTheregister
1 week ago

Usage-based billing muddles software vendor pricing

Software companies risk revenue loss due to outdated financial systems and challenges in measuring usage-based services, especially with AI integration.
Artificial intelligence
fromFortune
5 days ago

Amid the 'SaaSpocalypse,' CIOs and CTOs take a harder line with their vendors | Fortune

Engagement with software vendors is evolving, focusing on architecture and pricing models amid rapid changes in generative AI capabilities.
Tech industry
fromComputerWeekly.com
5 days ago

Azure customers up in arms over 'full' UK South region | Computer Weekly

Microsoft Azure is facing capacity issues in the UK South region, affecting virtual machine availability and customer migrations.
Artificial intelligence
from24/7 Wall St.
4 days ago

The Real Reason Cloudflare Is Down 11% Today Has Nothing to Do With Insider Selling

Insider selling at Cloudflare is routine and does not indicate trouble; the real concern is competition from Anthropic's new AI offerings.
Tech industry
fromTheregister
5 days ago

Nutanix thinks some Azure cloud desktops belong on-prem

Nutanix partners with Microsoft to enhance on-prem desktop virtualization, addressing challenges of VDI and promoting hybrid operations for Azure Virtual Desktop.
European startups
fromArs Technica
3 weeks ago

Cloud service providers ask EU regulator to reinstate VMware partner program

Broadcom terminated its VMware Cloud Service Provider program in Europe, excluding most European CSPs and implementing massive price increases up to 900 percent, prompting CISPE to file an antitrust complaint.
Information security
fromSecurityWeek
1 week ago

TeamPCP Moves From OSS to AWS Environments

TeamPCP has exploited compromised credentials to target open source software, leading to significant data exfiltration and supply chain attacks.
DevOps
fromInfoQ
3 days ago

Google Cloud Highlights Ongoing Work on PostgreSQL Core Capabilities

Google Cloud has made significant technical contributions to PostgreSQL, enhancing logical replication, upgrade processes, and system stability.
#amazon-s3
DevOps
fromInfoWorld
5 days ago

AWS turns its S3 storage service into a file system for AI agents

S3 Files simplifies access to Amazon S3, enhancing its role as a primary data layer for AI and modern applications.
DevOps
fromTheregister
4 weeks ago

AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches 'hundreds of exabytes'

Amazon S3 celebrates 20 years of operation, growing from 1 petabyte capacity to storing over 500 trillion objects while maintaining complete API backward compatibility since 2006.
DevOps
fromInfoWorld
5 days ago

AWS turns its S3 storage service into a file system for AI agents

S3 Files simplifies access to Amazon S3, enhancing its role as a primary data layer for AI and modern applications.
DevOps
fromTheregister
4 weeks ago

AWS S3 turns 20 and reaches 'hundreds of exabytes'

Amazon S3 celebrates 20 years of operation, growing from 1 petabyte capacity to storing over 500 trillion objects while maintaining complete API backward compatibility since 2006.
DevOps
fromFortune
4 days ago

The digital sovereignty dilemma is a false choice - here's how enterprises can have both | Fortune

Organizations must ensure digital sovereignty by balancing local control with global technology access to remain resilient and competitive.
fromTechzine Global
5 days ago

AWS S3 buckets now support file systems

S3 Files is built on Amazon EFS and automatically translates file system operations into S3 requests, allowing applications to work with S3 data without code changes.
DevOps
DevOps
fromInfoWorld
6 days ago

The Terraform scaling problem: When infrastructure-as-code becomes infrastructure-as-complexity

Terraform scales well for small teams but faces significant challenges as organizations grow, leading to complexity and management issues.
DevOps
fromMedium
1 week ago

Fair Multitenancy-Beyond Simple Rate Limiting

Fair multitenancy ensures equitable infrastructure access for customers, balancing simplicity, performance, and safety in shared environments.
European startups
fromComputerWeekly.com
1 month ago

Regulate AWS and Microsoft, says UK cloud provider survey | Computer Weekly

71% of cloud providers urgently demand UK regulatory intervention to prevent Microsoft and AWS from creating insurmountable competitive barriers in the highly concentrated cloud market.
Business intelligence
fromInfoWorld
1 month ago

Why enterprises are still bad at multicloud

Most enterprises operate multicloud environments across AWS, Microsoft, and Google, but lack coherent operational models, treating each cloud as a separate silo rather than an integrated business capability.
DevOps
fromInfoWorld
2 weeks ago

How to build an enterprise-grade MCP registry

MCP registries are essential for integrating AI agents with enterprise systems, requiring semantic discovery, governance, and developer-friendly controls.
Artificial intelligence
from24/7 Wall St.
1 month ago

SaaS-Pocalypse: Is Anthropic's New Tool a Death Sentence for Legacy Software?

AI coding agents like Claude Code threaten traditional software development workflows and seat-based licensing models, but legacy software companies shouldn't be dismissed despite disruptive potential.
DevOps
fromInfoWorld
2 weeks ago

Rethinking VM data protection in cloud-native environments

KubeVirt enables Kubernetes to manage both VMs and containers, requiring new strategies for VM lifecycle management and data protection.
Software development
fromComputerworld
1 month ago

AI agent platforms could push down SaaS license costs, report argues

AI simplifies software development but increases operational complexity and costs in enterprise environments, requiring security, compliance, support, and integration management.
DevOps
fromInfoWorld
3 weeks ago

Cloud at 20: Cost, complexity, and control

Cloud computing has failed to deliver on its promise of simplified IT operations and cost savings, instead creating greater complexity and spiraling expenses for most enterprises.
Marketing tech
fromAdExchanger
2 months ago

It's A SaaS Selloff; 'Integrity,' As In, Integrated. | AdExchanger

Investors favored subscription models; ad businesses, including AI-driven ads, must balance rapid revenue growth with integrity amid inevitable early missteps.
fromMedium
3 weeks ago

Mastering Azure Governance: Why It Matters and How to Get Started

Azure Governance is the set of policies, processes, and technical controls that ensure your Azure environment is secure, compliant, and well-managed. It provides a structured approach to organizing subscriptions, resources, and management groups, while defining standards for naming, tagging, security, and operational practices.
DevOps
Artificial intelligence
fromTheregister
1 month ago

SaaS-pocalypse isn't coming any time soon

AI will not destroy the SaaS market; instead, it creates competitive pricing pressure and differentiation challenges while maintaining cost-benefit analysis for enterprise software decisions.
Tech industry
fromInfoWorld
2 months ago

Caught in the great SaaS squeeze

Enterprise vendors are mandating cloud-only SaaS, phasing out on-premises ERP and shifting control, costs, security, and innovation to vendor-hosted platforms.
Information security
fromTheregister
2 months ago

AI framework flaws put enterprise clouds at risk of takeover

Two Chainlit vulnerabilities enable arbitrary file reads and SSRF attacks, risking exposure of environment variables, credentials, and potential cloud takeover if not patched.
Tech industry
fromInfoWorld
2 months ago

The next 10 years for cloud computing

Enterprises are abandoning unquestioning public cloud adoption due to high costs, limited productivity gains, and vendor lock-in, prompting providers to change strategies.
Artificial intelligence
fromComputerworld
1 month ago

SaaS isn't dead, the market is just becoming more hybrid

The future will be a blended ecosystem of agent-driven platforms, hybrid pricing, and AI governance where incumbents and AI-native startups coexist.
Tech industry
fromTheregister
2 months ago

Microsoft's shift to cloud management sw brings concerns

Microsoft will deprecate SCOM management packs for SQL Server Reporting Services, Power BI Report Server and Analysis Services; support and updates end January 2027.
Tech industry
fromTheregister
2 months ago

Rise of AI means companies could pass on SaaS

AI competition from firms like OpenAI and Anthropic threatens vertical SaaS growth, triggering a sharp software-stock sell-off and hundreds of billions in market-value losses.
fromInfoWorld
2 months ago

The private cloud returns, for AI workloads

A North American manufacturer spent most of 2024 and early 2025 doing what many innovative enterprises did: aggressively standardizing on the public cloud by using data lakes, analytics, CI/CD, and even a good chunk of ERP integration. The board liked the narrative because it sounded like simplification, and simplification sounded like savings. Then generative AI arrived, not as a lab toy but as a mandate. "Put copilots everywhere," leadership said. "Start with maintenance, then procurement, then the call center, then engineering change orders."
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