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AWS and Google Unite for Multicloud

"If you look at Nigeria, with a population of 210 million forecast to grow significantly, all of these kids are going to go to school and, because it’s the 21st century, presumably learn how to code. It’s not reasonable to expect each user session to run in a Docker image somewhere. Nigeria probably doesn’t have infrastructure for that scale."

— Sylvain Corlay, CEO and founder, QuantStack, "Teaching a Billion People to Code: How JupyterLite Is Scaling the Impossible"

From Cloud Native To AI Native: Where Are We Going?

Has the cloud native era now fully morphed into the AI-native era? If so, what does that mean for the future of both cloud native and AI technology? These are the questions a panel of experts took up at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America in Atlanta earlier this month. Tune in to catch the insights!

Top Trends from AWS re:Invent 2025

re:Invent charts the course for the cloud. To navigate these shifts, you need a new standard. We analyze the major trends we saw and explain why Durable Execution is the orchestration layer required to power them.

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Greetings from Las Vegas and the Multicloud Multiverse

The fall tech conference season is winding up, with The New Stackers covering the mammoth AWS re:Invent this week. Some of the big news coming out of Las Vegas this week could have a particular impact on organizations that deploy to multiple clouds. AWS and Google have collaborated on a standard that lets users easily bridge their cloud deployments through Layer 3 connectivity.

“The idea, according to both companies, is to make it easy for their customers with cloud operations in both clouds to network them together in a private network, reducing the burden of maintaining multicloud connectivity, and perhaps even dispelling fears of cloud lock-in,” writes TNS Senior Editor Joab Jackson.

The two cloud giants are also encouraging their competitors to join their effort. It adds up to a recognition that more organizations these days are embracing multicloud environments, for any number of reasons: cost, resilience, etc.

Other re:Invent news included updates to Amazon’s Nova foundation models, and the introduction of three AI frontier agents — Kiro, AWS Security Agent and AWS DevOps Agent, that AWS says “can run for hours or days without intervention, handle multiple tasks simultaneously and work toward broad goals rather than requiring step-by-step direction.”

Check out more AWS re:Invent news — and news from elsewhere — on The New Stack. We get around.

— Heather Joslyn, editor-in-chief, TNS

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Kubernetes Isn’t Your AI Bottleneck — It’s Your Secret Weapon

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Upcoming Webinar: How Highly Regulated Industries Thrive at the Edge
Dec 9

In this webinar, GE's Matt Grubis and Spectro Cloud's Justin Barksdale will join TNS to explore how GE leverages cloud native and edge technologies to improve care for 1 billion patients and ensure agility, consistency, and compliance across thousands of connected medical environments.

Driving Innovation with Python in Financial Service
Dec 10

Hear from John Wengler, Executive Director at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC), who streamlined his workflows and significantly reduced his work time using Python and Anaconda. He will share how he successfully navigated the challenges of driving innovation while maintaining governance in a traditional corporate environment.

GPU Cloud-in-a-Box: Build Products at Ease
Dec 15

In this 20-minute session, Mirantis’ Anjelica Ambrosio introduces the k0rdent AI Cloud Services Portal — a no-code solution that empowers Cloud Service Providers to launch GPU-enabled services faster than ever. You’ll see how k0rdent AI lets operators and customers alike build and customize products from pre-rendered components from an extensive catalog.

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Live from AWS re:Invent, Ryan Good of YUM! Brands and Justin Swagler of AWS joined  Spectro Cloud and TNS’s founder, Alex Williams, to dig into how to enable centralized management and scalable, production-grade infrastructure to bring innovation closer to customers. Missed it? No worries — the entire session is now available on-demand.

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