SUSECON 2026 in Prague marked a clear advance on the platform pillars SUSE introduced a year earlier in Orlando — and a more forceful articulation of its choice narrative. SUSE argued that choice only matters if it can be operationalized: enabling sovereign workload control and resilience not just to technical failure but to economic and […]

Financial services and insurance (FSI) enterprises are major investors in technology, with sizable budgets and unparalleled requirements for availability and resilience. Early cloud investment focused on modernizing data centers for private cloud requirements but has now expanded to include a range of prebuilt platforms, including AI-managed services. Rising consumer expectations and the competitive pressures from fintechs have driven widespread change in industry cloud adoption and implementation. This report discusses the current state of cloud in the FSI sector and informs FSI cloud leaders on the trends and challenges to expect using recent examples and data from our latest cloud survey.

At KubeCon Europe 2026, Kubernetes’ AI story shifted from “add support” to “rebuild the platform.” AI conformance, upstream GPU orchestration, shared inference blueprints, and in-platform governance are setting the new defaults.

You can use public cloud platforms to accelerate time to market and scale on demand; shift infrastructure costs and risk away from the business; and improve reliability, resilience, and global reach of core systems. But to realize these benefits, you’ll first have to select from a diverse set of vendors that vary by size, type of offering, geography, and use case differentiation. Cloud leaders should use this report to understand the value they can expect from a public cloud platform vendor globally, learn how vendors differ, and investigate options based on size and market focus.

The US cloud market in 2026 is entering a new era defined by AI-native architectures, multicloud complexity, and sovereignty concerns. While public cloud remains dominant for scalability and innovation, enterprises are increasingly adopting private and hybrid models to manage cost, compliance, and resilience. AI-driven workloads and agentic automation are reshaping cloud strategies, pushing hyperscalers and neoclouds into fierce competition. This report helps cloud leaders navigate these shifts by outlining the latest adoption patterns, operational priorities, and strategic recommendations for building a future-ready cloud ecosystem.

Cloud support tiers optimize for self-service enablement and prioritized, efficient support. But that’s just for starters: They deliver outcomes, improve quality, and strengthen governance. This report outlines a five-tier model — from self-service to external vendor support — and offers guidance on how enterprises can optimize cloud support for better CX while reducing operational costs and accelerating resolution times.

As the financial services industry accelerates its major digital transformation, public cloud has reached massive scale for a variety of use cases, including generative and agentic AI. Today, cloud is the preferred primary deployment model, changing both business-critical and frontend operations to enable a more customer-focused and digitally engaged organization. Today’s financial services organizations are no longer hesitant to move mission-critical workloads to the public cloud. This report outlines the drivers, challenges, and approaches that financial services institutions are taking to the cloud.

At the end of each year, we grade our cloud predictions. We use this report to hold us accountable and assess each prediction against what actually happened. In 2025, economic volatility, genAI, and tariffs dominated the tech market. Cloud providers made massive bets on AI data centers and infrastructure build-outs to support genAI workloads. Neoclouds used VC support, open-source AI projects, and NVIDIA chips to snatch premium enterprise end users. Still, the AI craze has left doubts on whether these investments are ahead of their time. This report outlines which 2025 predictions we got right, wrong, or somewhere in between.

Join Forrester experts and your peers for an interactive presentation that will dive deeper into Forrester’s 2026 Predictions for cloud computing.Key takeaways: Understand the changing technology, consumer, and market dynamics in store in 2026. Uncover new insights based on Forrester’s research and expert analysis.Prepare your team and your organization for what’s ahead. Target audience level: all levels

The goal of this year’s event was to position AWS as a newly transformed, AI-native cloud that’s ready right now. Here’s a closer look at the key announcements and developments.