In today’s Tech Pulse, gain insight into how:

• Event-native and AI-driven cloud architectures are transforming real-time responsiveness, enabling automated decisions while maintaining security-by-design.

• "Self-driving" cloud security uses AI and automation to fix vulnerabilities faster, easing alert fatigue and redefining cybersecurity success metrics.

• Decentralized cloud infrastructures ensure resilience and reliability, helping organizations stay operational during outages and beyond.

Each of these articles is penned by members of Forbes Technology Council, key luminaries shaping the future of technology leadership.

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Future-Ready Cloud: Event-Native, AI-Driven, & Secure

Cloud architecture is evolving to tackle today’s real-time, hyper-connected, and AI-driven demands. As businesses process constant streams of customer interactions, sensor data, and security alerts, they require systems that act instantly, intelligently, and securely. Enter: event-native, AI-powered, and secure cloud architectures.

Here’s why these pillars matter and what they enable in modern organizations:

🍃 Event-Native Design: Traditional request-response models can’t handle real-time surges like suspicious logins or sensor anomalies. Event-native systems react instantly: events trigger actions without manual intervention, minimizing latency and improving accuracy.

🤖 AI-Driven Decision Making: AI models can transform event streams into actionable insights, enabling predictions, anomaly detection, and automated responses. Examples include fraud prevention, resource forecasting, and system performance optimization.

🔒 Security as a Core Principle: Zero Trust ensures every event, model, and service is authenticated before acting. Immutable event logs and fine-grained access controls maintain data integrity and streamline forensic investigations.

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Self-Driving Cloud Security: Fix Faster, Defend Smarter

Cybersecurity is evolving from visibility obsession to automation-driven action. While identifying vulnerabilities is important, drowning in alerts without a clear path to resolution isn’t sustainable. “Self-driving cloud security” is where AI and automation continuously fix issues while keeping human oversight in the loop.

Here’s why fixing, not just finding, is the real future of cloud protection:

🔔 Tackling Alert Overload: Current tools bombard teams with alerts, many lacking the context needed to prioritize effectively. Attack path analysis connects vulnerabilities, identities, and risks, revealing issues that truly matter.

⚙️ Automating What Matters: AI can prioritize and recommend repairs, or even automate repetitive fixes like misconfigured IAM roles. This shifts security teams from spending time triaging alerts to solving the root causes of critical risks.

📊 Metrics That Define Real Security: Success isn’t about visibility anymore; it’s about reducing Mean Time to Remediation (MTTR). Automation ensures organizations act faster, scaling security without overwhelming teams.

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Beyond Outages: Embracing a Decentralized Cloud Model

Centralized cloud systems can fail big. Amazon's US-EAST-1 outage in 2025 cost U.S. companies an estimated $70 million per hour. Meanwhile, decentralized cloud architectures, such as Web3 systems, emerged largely unscathed. Decentralization is proving itself to be the answer to building resilient, future-ready infrastructure.

Here’s why decentralization matters and the foundations organizations need to get it right:

🖧 Why Decentralization Matters: Distributes workloads across nodes, rerouting traffic when issues arise, instead of relying on single points of failure. It also enhances business continuity, supports global expansion, and ensures the reliability of AI-powered, real-time services.

⚙️ Key Foundations for Success

• Observability Tools: Unify metrics and signals across nodes to avoid blind spots.

• Workload Portability: Containerize and decouple systems to ensure seamless transitions.

• Updated Governance: Reduce bottlenecks to enable faster, autonomous deployments.

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