AWS IAM Identity Center now supports multi-region replication for AWS account access and application usage | Amazon Web Services

AWS IAM Identity Center now supports multi-region replication for AWS account access and application usage | Amazon Web Services

Today, we’re announcing the general availability of AWS IAM Identity Center support for multiple regions to enable access to your AWS account and use of managed applications in additional AWS regions. With this feature, you can replicate your worker identities, permission sets, and other metadata in your organization’s IAM Identity Center instance connected to an … Read more

Snowflake and OpenAI bring artificial intelligence to everyday work with cloud data

Snowflake and OpenAI push AI into everyday cloud data work

AI is starting to change the way large organizations use cloud data platforms. What started as a way to cheaply store information and scale analytics has become central to creating reports, dashboards, and business intelligence. The shift now is not where the data lives in the cloud, but who can work with it and how … Read more

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock Agent Workflows, Amazon SageMaker Private Connectivity, and More (February 2, 2026) | Amazon Web Services

AWS Weekly Roundup: Amazon Bedrock Agent Workflows, Amazon SageMaker Private Connectivity, and More (February 2, 2026) | Amazon Web Services

Over the past week, we’ve been through the Laba Festival, a traditional mark in the Chinese calendar that signals the final stretch leading up to the Lunar New Year. For many in China, it’s a moment of reflection and preparation, wrapping up what the year has brought and turning their attention to what lies ahead. … Read more

India Offers Tech Giants Tax Free Till 2047 – TechRepublic

India Offers Tech Giants Tax Free Till 2047 - TechRepublic

Image: Envato India has dropped a technology incentive that may be of interest to foreign firms. The Union Budget 2026 offers a complete tax holiday lasting until 2047 for foreign AI and cloud providers that route their global services through Indian data centers. The sweeping policy change aims to transform India into a dominant data … Read more

SoftBank’s Infrinia AI Cloud OS for GPU cloud services

SoftBank's Infrinia AI Cloud OS for GPU cloud services

Japanese multinational investment holding company SoftBank has launched Infrinia AI Cloud OS, a software suite custom-designed for AI data centers. Infrinia AI Cloud OS designed by the Infrinia team enables data center operators to provide Kubernetes-as-a-service (KaaS) in multi-tenant settings and offer inference-as-a-service (Inf-aaS). This allows customers to access LLM through simple APIs that can … Read more

Data centers are getting their own lifeline with increasing business risk

Data centers are getting their own lifeline with increasing business risk

Willis Insurance has introduced an eight-point digital infrastructure framework that classifies data centers as a separate insurance system class. The firm says the change reflects a change in the risk profile of data centers. This was influenced by the role that DC assets now play in cloud and AI workloads. In announcing the framework on … Read more

Nationwide is deepening its use of cloud services with AWS

Nationwide is deepening its use of cloud services with AWS

Large financial institutions rarely overhaul their technology in one dramatic step. Change typically occurs in phases, with systems gradually shifting, consolidating, and improving over time. Nationwide Building Society’s expanded cloud services partnership with AWS fits right into this pattern. Rather than signaling a new direction, the deal reflects a decision to continue down a path … Read more

How Mercedes F1 uses the cloud for real-time decision-making

Nationwide is deepening its use of cloud services with AWS

For many large organizations, cloud computing is still in the background. Operates internal systems, supports analytics teams, and scales storage as needed. It is changing where the cloud manifests itself in the work itself – including performance-critical environments such as Formula 1 or F1, where Mercedes uses cloud systems to support real-time decision-making under pressure. … Read more