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Latest news on Cloud Computing, covering AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, AI infrastructure, data centres, SaaS, hybrid cloud, cybersecurity and enterprise services

Cloud computing underpins the modern digital economy, with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) leading a market worth hundreds of billions of pounds a year. Challengers including Oracle Cloud, IBM Cloud and Alibaba Cloud compete alongside the hyperscalers, while the vast majority of enterprises now run workloads across public, private and hybrid cloud environments.

Artificial intelligence has become the dominant force in the sector. Demand for generative AI training and inference is driving record investment in GPUs, custom chips and new data centres worldwide. Providers are expanding edge computing capabilities and specialist GPU cloud services, while multi-cloud strategies remain standard practice for resilience and flexibility.

The industry also faces significant challenges. Data centre energy consumption and sustainability commitments are under growing scrutiny, and rising cloud costs have made FinOps and cost optimisation boardroom priorities. Data sovereignty concerns are fuelling interest in sovereign cloud offerings, while high-profile outages and evolving cybersecurity threats keep security and resilience firmly in the headlines.

Beyond the infrastructure, cloud computing has transformed how businesses and individuals work and collaborate. From remote work enablement to digital transformation initiatives, cloud services are integral to modern operations. Sectors including healthcare, finance and education continue to report gains in scalability, innovation and access to advanced analytics.

The evolution of cloud computing traces back to the 1960s concept of utility computing, but the modern era began in 2006 when Amazon launched EC2 and S3. The rise of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), followed by containers, Kubernetes and serverless computing, created today's rich ecosystem of cloud-based solutions.

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