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At 22:30 on a Thursday, Lara, CFO of a global manufacturer, refreshed the weekly dashboard she had learned to dread.

As organizations increasingly build and run applications on Amazon Web Services (AWS), the nature of the infrastructure they must secure has fundamentally changed. Modern AWS environments rely on dynamic resources such as EC2 instances, containers running on Amazon EKS, and serverless functions like AWS Lambda. These cloud-native workloads are highly scalable and ephemeral, which makes traditional security approaches insufficient. Cloud Native Workload Protection (CNWP) addresses this challenge by providing continuous security for workloads running across AWS environments.

In 2026, AWS security has never been more critical. Startups are born multi-account, enterprises are migrating their crown jewels to the cloud, and regulators are asking sharper questions about our controls. Yet despite the urgency, most of us are still learning AWS security the wrong way.

As Europe's IT leaders and C-level executives navigate GDPR, DORA, and rising AI-driven threats, traditional perimeter security crumbles under hybrid cloud and remote work pressures. Exemplified by Odido’s February 2026 breach in the Netherlands, where hackers used phishing and vishing to infiltrate a CRM system, enabling lateral movement that exposed names, addresses, IBANs and date of birth of 6,2 million customers, with data leaked after ransom refusal (see: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/Odido).

Noventiq, a CrowdStrike Elite partner, is expanding the availability of its CrowdStrike expertise into the Western European market—combining CrowdStrike product resale with Noventiq Professional Services and managed operations, transacted through AWS Marketplace to accelerate adoption and measurable security outcomes.

Technology spend has become the second-largest expense line item for enterprises — surpassed only by people. Yet as artificial intelligence rapidly proliferates across cloud environments, organizations face a critical gap: traditional FinOps teams optimize cost, while ITAM teams ensure compliance and visibility. These disciplines operate in silos, leaving shadow AI systems untracked and uncontrolled. The shift is inevitable: FinOps and ITAM must converge into a unified function that delivers both financial rigor and governance discipline. 

One-third of IT decision-makers have placed AI integration at the top of their strategic agenda, with 94% actively embedding AI into their technology stacks. Yet 36% of organizations believe they are overspending on AI — a gap that reveals the cost of fragmentation. Departments deploy generative AI tools, machine learning pipelines, and agentic AI systems without registering them in ITAM inventories or routing them through FinOps cost controls. 

As agentic AI moves from concept to production, organizations will need a unified discipline that combines asset governance with cost optimization — precisely where FinOps and ITAM intersect.

Viso.ai is a major coffee retailer with around 300+ Coffee Retail Shops within Switzerland. Viso.ai wanted to detect & determine empty/partially empty/foreign objects placed within compartments from the condiment station within an image which was streamed from the Coffee Shops CCTV Camera’s every 5 mins.

Microsoft SQL Server 2016’s extended support is scheduled to end on July 14, 2026, meaning no new security updates or patches will be supplied thereafter. Running a database platform past its end of support significantly increases security, compliance, and operational risk, especially for regulated workloads. Particularly for regulated workloads under GDPR and DORA, prompting a strategic rethink of data platforms.

The AWS European Sovereign Cloud is a dedicated AWS cloud environment located entirely in the EU, with the first region now live in Brandenburg (Germany) and additional sovereign Local Zones are planned for Belgium, the Netherlands and Portugal from 2026 onward. It combines full‑featured AWS services with an EU‑only operating and governance model so that infrastructure, operations and data residency are aligned with European legal and regulatory expectations.

Leaner Smarter EUC for Modern Enterprises

If you run end user computing (EUC) at scale, you’ve probably lived this story: a project spins up, a cohort of contractors arrives, or a seasonal peak hits, so you provision more virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) capacity “just in case”. Three months later, half those desktops sit idle, but the licence meter keeps running and the operational drag (patching, directory dependencies, image sprawl, support tickets) never really goes away.