As we approach 2026, the cloud landscape is shifting from general-purpose computing to AI-native platforms. This article explores the drivers behind this change, the rise of Neo Clouds like CoreWeave and Lambda, and what it means for enterprise architecture.
Edge computing brings processing closer to the data source. For financial services, this means processing transactions, analysing risk, and detecting fraud at the network edge — closer to customers, exchanges, and data sources — rather than in a centralised cloud data centre. Edge computing is not new. Trading firms have colocated with exchanges for decades to minimise latency. But the cloud providers’ edge offerings — AWS Wavelength, GCP Distributed Cloud, Azure Edge Zones — have made edge computing accessible to a broader range of financial services firms. ...