AWS Suffers Historic Middle East Outage as $200 Billion AI Investment Faces Scrutiny
A catastrophic AWS outage across the Middle East disrupted 84 services while Amazon pledges a record $200 billion in cloud and AI infrastructure spending for 2026.
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AWS & CloudA catastrophic AWS outage across the Middle East disrupted 84 services while Amazon pledges a record $200 billion in cloud and AI infrastructure spending for 2026.
CybersecurityTwo-thirds of CISOs rank AI-driven threats as their top concern for 2026 as deepfakes, evolved ransomware, and AI-generated phishing overwhelm traditional defences.

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