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AWS CEO Garman pitches ‘billions of agents’ as enterprise AI future

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) chief executive Matt Garman projected a full agentic artificial intelligence (AI) future for the cloud infrastructure supplier’s customers during his keynote speech at its Re:Invent show in Las Vegas. He told attendees that freedom for customers to invent has been the consistent mantra of AWS since its inception two decades ago,…

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Cyber teams on alert as React2Shell exploitation spreads

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A remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in the React JavaScript library, which earlier today caused disruption across the internet as Cloudflare pushed mitigations live on its network, is now being exploited by multiple threat actors at scale, according to reports. Maintained by Meta, React is an open source resource designed to enable developers to build…

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Interview: Mariano Albera, CTO Checkout.com

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Mariano Albera describes himself as “a software engineer who was demoted to chief technology officer” (CTO). Now at global payments processing company Checkout.com, Albera heads up the operational and customer-facing IT team, made up of around 600 IT professionals. This is a significant portion of the fintech’s total workforce of 2,000, which – if you…

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Google Cloud withdraws complaint with European Commission over Microsoft’s cloud licensing tactics

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Google Cloud has confirmed the withdrawal of a complaint it filed with the European Commission (EC) in September 2024, relating to Microsoft’s controversial cloud licensing strategy, whereby it charges customers higher fees for wanting to run its software in competing cloud environments. The issue has seen Microsoft repeatedly come in for criticism and scrutiny from…

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Google wins multimillion-pound contract to supply sovereign cloud services to Nato

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Google Cloud has secured another multimillion-pound contract to supply a military organisation with secure sovereign cloud capabilities, several months after inking a similar deal with the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD). The public cloud giant has agreed a deal to supply the Nato Communication and Information Agency (NCIA) with its air-gapped Google Distributed Cloud (GDC) setup,…

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Cloudflare outage disrupts public web services

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Web traffic protection specialist Cloudflare has issued an apology to its customers after an unspecified outage affecting its Access zero-trust platform downed multiple public-facing services, including OpenAI’s ChatGPT, outage information aggregator DownDetector and social media platform X. The issue at Cloudflare, which is well known for its frontline cyber defensive work in blocking distributed denial…

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European Commission launches AWS and Microsoft-focused cloud competition probes

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft’s dominant hold on the cloud computing market is to come under renewed scrutiny, with the European Commission (EC) set to investigate the pair’s activities under the terms of the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The EC has opened two separate investigations into AWS and Microsoft, which seek to ascertain if…

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Workday sets out to reinvent ERP with agentic AI platform

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At Workday’s Rising conference in Barcelona, the HR and financial applications SaaS supplier fleshed out what looks like a strategic shift towards being an agentic AI platform that could disrupt traditional enterprise resource planning (ERP).   In his opening keynote, CEO Carl Eschenbech positioned Workday as the “enterprise AI platform for managing people, money and…

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Amazon links planned mass layoff to AI

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Amazon plans to lay off 14,000 employees amid an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled cost-cutting drive. On 28 October 2025, Amazon’s senior vice-president of people, experience and technology Beth Galetti confirmed to employees that the e-commerce behemoth plans to axe 14,000 roles from its corporate workforce, something she specified has been prompted and enabled by the firm’s…

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AWS emerges as ‘sole bidder’ for HMRC’s £500m datacentre migration project as rivals exit

4 minutes of reading / Amazon, AWS, business continuity, Cloud, Computer, Fujitsu, Google, Google Cloud, hybrid cloud, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Tech / By

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the last supplier standing in the controversial £500m race to become the hyperscaler responsible for overseeing a 10-year datacentre exit project for HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC), Computer Weekly has learned. As previously reported by Computer Weekly, the government tax collection agency needs a hyperscale provider to manage the migration…

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