cloud governance

Microsoft has repositioned Azure Copilot from a conversational helper into an agentic orchestration platform to run cloud operations at scale, unveiling a family of specialized AI agents and an orchestration engine designed to automate deployment, migration, optimization, observability...

The European Commission has opened formal market investigations to decide whether Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure should be treated as regulated “gatekeepers” under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), and has launched a parallel, horizontal review of whether the DMA’s toolbox is...

The European Commission’s decision on 18 November 2025 to open three formal market investigations into Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure under the Digital Markets Act (DMA) marks a major escalation in how Brussels intends to police cloud infrastructure and the competitive dynamics...

Brussels has opened formal market investigations that put Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure squarely in the regulatory crosshairs, probing whether the two hyperscalers should face tougher, gatekeeper-style rules under the European Union’s Digital Markets Act — a move that could reshape...

The diginomica network’s latest research lands a clear, uncomfortable verdict for enterprise technology teams: artificial intelligence is not primarily a technical deployment problem — it is a change management problem. Within an invitation‑only community of CIOs and CTOs, the report finds...

The European Commission is preparing a formal look into whether Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud should be brought within the scope of the Digital Markets Act after a run of high‑impact outages exposed both the systemic importance of hyperscale clouds and the practical...

Infosys’ new AI Agent for the energy sector marks a conspicuous push to marry enterprise-grade agentic AI with cloud-scale operations — a packaged solution that combines Infosys Topaz, Infosys Cobalt, and Microsoft’s Copilot and Azure AI Foundry capabilities to convert real‑time operational...

Microsoft’s latest push to reassure European customers — promising that EU customer data “stays in Europe” — is a major public-relations and engineering milestone, but it does not erase legal, architectural, or operational trade-offs that organisations and regulators must still confront...

The Server Side’s take on Azure DevOps Expert Exam Dumps and AZ‑400 “braindumps” is a clear-eyed, practical admonition: shortcutting certification with leaked question banks may yield a fast pass, but it risks revocation, reputation damage, and, most importantly, the absence of durable...

Microsoft and Abu Dhabi’s G42 announced a 200‑megawatt expansion of data‑centre capacity in the United Arab Emirates, a move folded into a broader Microsoft commitment of roughly $15.2 billion for UAE AI and cloud infrastructure between 2023 and 2029; the partners say the new capacity will begin...

Over the past two weeks the cloud’s convenience suddenly felt brittle: two back‑to‑back outages at the largest hyperscale providers — an AWS disruption rooted in DNS/DynamoDB in the US‑EAST‑1 region and a configuration error in Microsoft Azure’s Front Door fabric — produced widespread service...

Microsoft’s internal controls for reporting ethical concerns have been expanded to include a formal channel for flagging potential human‑rights and policy risks tied to the development and deployment of its technology, a move announced by company President Brad Smith as part of a broader...

Google’s enterprise AI push and a worrying jobs narrative collided this week: Storyboard18’s roundup flagged that over a lakh (100,000+) jobs have been lost amid AI-driven restructuring, while Google Cloud formally packaged its model and agent stack as Gemini Enterprise — a subscription platform...

MTN has completed a major modernisation of its Enterprise Value Analytics (EVA) platform by migrating EVA to Microsoft Azure — a move MTN and its partners present as a cloud-native re‑engineering that delivers faster analytics, wider scale and a repeatable blueprint for telco data platforms...

ADnoc, Masdar, XRG and Microsoft have struck a high‑profile strategic agreement at the ENACT Majlis in Abu Dhabi to accelerate AI deployment across ADNOC’s operations while coordinating renewable energy and infrastructure to support Microsoft’s expanding AI and data‑centre footprint — a deal...

The Azure outage described in the submitted brief is part of a recurring pattern of high‑impact incidents tied to Azure’s edge and networking control planes — most often traced to problems with Azure Front Door (AFD), DNS/routing anomalies, or regional network configuration errors — and the...

WPP’s new self-serve product promises to put “pixel‑perfect” ads and full campaign stacks into the hands of brands that don’t want — or can’t afford — a full agency retainer, but the move also crystallises the central strategic trade-offs of large holding companies building AI on top of public...

NetCom Learning’s new Multi‑Cloud Generative AI training bundles promise to give enterprise teams a single, vendor‑authorized path from strategy to hands‑on implementation across AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud (including Gemini), and AI‑specific certifications — a packaged combination...

Microsoft’s partial suspension of Azure services to an Israeli Ministry of Defense unit has become the focal point of a renewed campaign by civil‑society organisations demanding far greater corporate accountability for cloud and AI tools used in the Gaza conflict. Background / Overview Since...

A senior Microsoft engineer’s mass resignation — delivered by email to thousands of colleagues and amplified across social feeds — has turned a months‑long internal ethics dispute into a public governance crisis for one of the world’s largest cloud providers. The engineer, identified in press...