Image generated by Google Gemini The U.S. military is looking to modernize and has turned to major technology ally Salesforce for support. Salesforce has been awarded a $5.6 billion, 10-year, Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to accelerate digital modernization and operational readiness across the Department of War (DOW). The deal positions Salesforce as a … Read more
Hey! It’s my first post for 2026 and I’m writing to you while I watch our driveway being dug up. I hope wherever you are you are safe and warm and your data keeps flowing! This week brings exciting news for customers with GPU-intensive workloads, with the launch of our latest graphics and AI instances … Read more
Today we are proud to introduce Maia 200, a breakthrough inference accelerator designed to dramatically improve the economics of AI token generation. The Maia 200 is a powerful tool for AI inference: an accelerator built on TSMC’s 3nm process with native FP8/FP4 tensor cores, a redesigned memory system with 216 GB HBM3e at 7 TB/s … Read more
Image generated by Google Gemini Microsoft’s cloud empire collapsed yesterday (January 22) in a devastating service outage. The incident left businesses across North America staring at error messages instead of their essential work tools. The chaos lasted over eight grueling hours and revealed just how fragile our digital workplace really is. The digital disaster began … Read more
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
