Cloud Titans Unleash AI Alliances and Mega-Deals – July 23–24, 2025 Cloud News Roundup
AWS announced a $100 million boost for its Generative AI Innovation Center and launched the Generative AI Partner Innovation Alliance. Amazon ECS added a blue/green deployment feature for container updates. OpenAI chose Google Cloud for AI training, while Oracle signed a $30 billion annual cloud deal with OpenAI for Texas data center capacity. IBM closed its $6.4 billion HashiCorp acquisition and introduced the z17 mainframe with on-chip AI.