Alex Kantrowitz interviews Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince about the web’s rapid shift toward AI-driven traffic, the future of online publishing, and the risks for small businesses. Prince says automated requests have already surpassed human browsing and could reach 1,000 times human traffic within five years, forcing major changes to infrastructure and internet economics.
Google Cloud’s us-central1-b outage stemmed from a maintenance mistake that disconnected every fiber path serving the affected zone. The September 1 incident left virtual machines unreachable and caused severe network degradation for more than four hours, despite the region’s multilayer redundancy.
Google Cloud outage traced to engineer unplugging internet access More...
Google is pushing a more flexible pricing model for AI agents as companies struggle to control rapidly rising usage costs. The plan combines pay-as-you-go billing, token discounts of up to 20%, hard monthly spending caps, and a zero-cost base subscription—directly challenging Anthropic’s recurring seat fees and Microsoft’s separate usage licenses.
Google takes aim at Anthropic and Microsoft with AI agent pricing caps More...
Amazon Quick now connects directly to Microsoft Outlook, allowing users to summarize threads, draft contextual replies, manage messages, and schedule meetings without leaving the mailbox. The extension can also trigger broader workflows, but its ability to take actions makes permissions, data handling, and response verification important considerations for IT teams.
Amazon Quick turns Outlook into an agentic AI email assistant More...
AWS has published an enterprise deployment pattern that routes OpenAI ChatGPT Codex through LiteLLM on Amazon ECS and Amazon Bedrock, giving teams centralized model access, budgets, rate limits, and usage visibility. The important detail is that Codex still runs its task loop and approved tools on the developer’s workstation; only model requests pass through the AWS-hosted gateway.
AWS shows how to put ChatGPT Codex behind a controlled LiteLLM gateway More...
AWS has expanded Amazon Elastic VMware Service (EVS) to 22 regions and doubled the supported environment size to 32 hosts, giving organizations a broader path for moving VMware workloads out of aging data centers. The service now supports VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) 9.0 and 9.1 on Amazon EC2 bare-metal infrastructure, including a lift-and-shift VCF-to-VCF migration model that preserves existing VMware operations.
Amazon EVS reaches 22 AWS regions with larger VMware migration environments More...
Microsoft is replacing its three-part reporting structure with two divisions, putting AI models, Azure, GitHub, and Microsoft 365 together under the new “Agents and Infra” name. The reorganization highlights how deeply AI and Copilot are reshaping Microsoft’s business—and gives the new division a projected quarterly revenue lead of roughly five to one over “Devices and Consumer.”
Microsoft puts AI, Azure, and GitHub under one powerful new division More...
Broadcom is shifting VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) from a platform deployment project to an outcomes-driven private-cloud program, expanding its partnership with Kyndryl and training several thousand consultants, architects, and delivery specialists. The effort targets faster automation, stronger security, and private and hybrid clouds prepared for AI workloads.
Broadcom and Kyndryl train thousands to make VMware Cloud Foundation AI-ready More...
Azure Multicloud Interconnect for AWS is now generally available, expanding the service from a four-region preview capped at 1 Gbps to connections up to 100 Gbps. Microsoft and AWS are presenting the release as a production-ready way to connect private workloads across both clouds without manually building and maintaining the underlying network.
Azure Multicloud Interconnect exits preview with 100 Gbps links More...
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