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Latest news on Cloud Computing, covering AWS (Amazon Web Services), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, IBM Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, CoreWeave and other neoclouds, hyperscalers, AI infrastructure, cloud infrastructure, cloud provider news, GPU cloud, data centres (also data center and datacenter), hybrid cloud, multicloud, multi-cloud, public cloud, private cloud, sovereign cloud, edge computing, serverless, Kubernetes, FinOps, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, virtualisation, virtualization, cloud migration, cloud security and cloud outages.

Cloud computing delivers servers, virtual machines, storage, databases, networking and software over the internet, so organisations rent capacity for their workloads instead of owning it. Amazon Web Services (with services such as Amazon S3 and EC2), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud lead the market, with Oracle Cloud, IBM Cloud and Alibaba Cloud among the other major providers. Most large organisations now mix public cloud, private cloud and on-premises systems.

Artificial intelligence is the main driver of change. Training and running models needs huge amounts of GPU compute, which has fuelled new AI services such as Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI and Vertex AI, and a new group of GPU cloud specialists known as neoclouds, including CoreWeave. Hyperscalers are spending heavily on new data centres, while energy supply, chips and financing shape how fast capacity can grow.

The industry faces real challenges. Major cloud outages can disrupt banks, airlines and websites at once, which keeps resilience and multi-cloud strategies in the headlines. Rising bills have made FinOps a priority, security teams worry about misconfiguration and cloud security flaws, and governments want more control through sovereign cloud and data-protection rules.

Cloud services have changed how people work. Remote and hybrid working, streaming, online banking and digital public services all depend on them, and developers use containers, Kubernetes, serverless computing and tools such as Hadoop for big data to build and scale applications faster. Edge computing moves processing closer to users and devices.

The idea of utility computing goes back to the 1960s. The modern cloud era began in 2006, when Amazon launched S3 and EC2, followed by Azure and Google Cloud. Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) then became the standard ways to buy technology, and cloud migration became a long-term task for most businesses.

Our NewsNow Cloud Computing feed gathers the latest headlines on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, neoclouds, AI infrastructure, cloud security, outages and enterprise cloud strategy from reliable sources. Follow it for up-to-date coverage of the technology that runs much of the digital economy.