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HighPoint has absorbed cloud consulting firm CloudView Partners in a move aimed at strengthening its hybrid-cloud and infrastructure modernization capabilities. The deal brings CloudView’s expertise in Azure, AWS, Microsoft 365, and automation into HighPoint’s networking and cybersecurity portfolio. Founder Sanjay Maljure joins as Global VP of Digital Solutions, as both teams begin integrating services to support enterprises navigating complex multi-cloud migrations and platform modernization initiatives.

Britain’s cloud market review has hit a moment of uncertainty after Kip Meeks resigned as chair of the Competition and Markets Authority’s cloud inquiry, citing frustration with the slow progress in implementing recommendations issued in 2025. The report had raised concerns over competition barriers and the dominance of AWS and Microsoft in the UK cloud sector. Nearly a year later, industry stakeholders are still waiting for regulatory follow-through.

Amazon has outlined a $39.2 billion investment to expand AWS cloud and AI infrastructure in Spain, reinforcing its Aragón region as a strategic European hub. The plan includes new data center capacity, an AI-focused server facility, and logistics expansion, with projected GDP impact through 2035. The move signals Spain’s growing role in Europe’s cloud computing and artificial intelligence landscape.

New findings from the 2026 Wasabi Global Cloud Storage Index show enterprises directing most AI budgets toward data, storage, and compute rather than software. Yet nearly half report cloud storage budget overruns, often tied to complex fee structures. Data quality and storage management now rank above compute as AI deployment hurdles, underscoring the growing operational weight of cloud object storage in enterprise AI strategies.

AWS has introduced open-source Agent Plugins that enable AI coding agents to design and deploy applications through structured AWS workflows. The initial “deploy-on-aws” plugin analyzes codebases, recommends services, estimates costs, generates infrastructure-as-code, and executes deployment using real-time data. By embedding AWS best practices into reusable agent capabilities, the approach aims to standardize cloud architecture decisions while keeping developers in control.

Akamai plans to deploy thousands of NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs across its distributed cloud network, embedding AI inference capacity into more than 4,400 edge locations. The strategy shifts compute closer to users, targeting latency-sensitive applications and data sovereignty demands. As enterprises prioritize production-scale AI over model training, Akamai is positioning edge-based inference as a structural alternative to centralized hyperscale infrastructure.