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Originally disrupting the book retailing business, Amazon Web Services has since emerged as a world’s leader in the provision of ‘as a Service’ computing resources. With more than 200 services available covering infrastructure, platform, compute, storage and applications as a service, AWS solutions are provided from a network of 38 data centers around the world. A cluster of AWS data centres is planned for New Zealand, headquartered in Auckland, and likely to be online by 2024.
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Australia tech sector hits AUD $250bn GDP milestone early

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Australia's tech sector hits AUD $248.5bn GDP in 2025, reaching its 2030 target early and cementing its role as the nation's productivity engine.
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monday.com launches AI agent hiring platform Agentalent.ai

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monday.com unveils Agentalent.ai, a marketplace to recruit, vet and onboard AI agents into defined business roles alongside human staff.
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Bonfy unveils ACS 2.0 to secure data for AI agents

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Bonfy launches ACS 2.0, a cross-channel data security platform to monitor and control how AI agents access, process and share content.
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AI drives wasted cloud spend higher despite FinOps gains

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Wasted cloud spend jumps to 29% as AI workloads surge, outpacing gains in FinOps maturity and sharpening focus on governance and risk.
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Boomi tops 2026 Gartner iPaaS rankings for execution

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Boomi tops Gartner's 2026 iPaaS Magic Quadrant for Ability to Execute, extending its run in the Leaders segment to a 12th year.
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Island unveils SASE to cut proxy backhaul for AI era

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Island has rolled out a SASE design that shifts inspection to the endpoint, cutting proxy backhaul and avoiding default SSL/TLS break-and-inspect.
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Native raises USD $42m for cloud security control plane

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Cloud security startup Native launches from stealth with USD $42m to unify preventive, intent-based controls across major public clouds.
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XM Cyber adds AI exposure mapping across hybrid cloud

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XM Cyber rolls out AI exposure mapping to track shadow AI, cloud models and MCP servers across hybrid estates in a single attack graph.
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Kore.ai unveils platform to tackle enterprise AI sprawl

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Kore.ai has launched an Agent Management Platform to give enterprises a unified control layer over fast-growing, fragmented AI agent estates.
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Milestone boosts Hafnia with synthetic data, TaaS & VLMs

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Milestone expands Hafnia with synthetic data, TaaS and VLMs to speed smart city vision AI training and cut bias in rare-event modelling.
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GitHub backs Alpha-Omega with fresh open source funds

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GitHub joins tech giants in a USD $12.5 million Alpha-Omega push, boosting AI-powered defences for critical open source software.
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AWS unveils AI agents to streamline Partner Central

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AWS rolls out Bedrock-powered AI agents in Partner Central, automating deal admin, sales guidance and funding requests for partners.
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SentinelOne names Jason Duerden ANZ area vice president

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SentinelOne appoints Jason Duerden ANZ area vice president to drive cyber growth in government, critical infrastructure and AI security.
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Linux Foundation secures USD $12.5m for AI security

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Linux Foundation wins USD $12.5m from tech giants to bolster AI-era open source security and ease pressure on overstretched maintainers.
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Amazon leads concentrated global hyperscale market

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Amazon leads the concentrated global hyperscale data centre market, as the top 10 providers captured 46% of 2024 revenue.
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Densification vs decarbonisation: The future of data centres in Australia

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Australia races to expand data centres as AI demand soars, testing how far densification can go while still hitting net-zero ambitions.
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SailPoint & AWS ally on AI agent identity governance

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SailPoint strikes multi-year AWS deal to govern fast-growing AI agent identities with unified controls across human and machine access.
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SailPoint, AWS forge identity governance pact for AI

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SailPoint and AWS strike multi-year deal to build unified identity governance for human and AI agents as cloud workloads grow.
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Synechron unifies three Australian consultancies under one

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Synechron merges Chamonix IT, Exposé and iGreenData into a single Australian consultancy, unveiling a new national leadership team.
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Anthropic commits USD $100m to Claude partner push

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Anthropic launches Claude Partner Network with an initial USD $100m to train, certify and co-market with enterprises building on Claude.