VENDORiQ: AWS’s New Zealand Region – Business as Usual or a Sign of Shifting Priorities?
AWS’s New Zealand region is essential expansion, yet broader investment shifts toward high-risk, high-reward AI infrastructure will affect core cloud services.
AWS’s New Zealand region is essential expansion, yet broader investment shifts toward high-risk, high-reward AI infrastructure will affect core cloud services.
Microsoft is ending volume discounts on Enterprise Agreements to fund AI investment, forcing executives to shift from price negotiation to value management and governance.
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Microsoft is bundling its specific Copilots into the main M365 license, signaling a shift to specialised AI tools embedded in daily workflows.
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