What the AWS AI Service Shutdown Means for Small Business — And Why It Should Change How You Evaluate Cloud Tools
On June 30, 2026 Amazon Web Services published what looked like a routine maintenance update on their website. Most small business owners never saw it and people advising small businesses never mentioned it either. AWS moved Amazon Kendra, Amazon Q Business, and Amazon Bedrock Agents into maintenance mode with new customer sign-ups ending July 30, 2026. Ten Amazon SageMaker AI …
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AWS and Google Cloud Just Teamed Up
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Mussawwir Sterrett
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July 30, 2026
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For years moving data between Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud was a frustrating, expensive, and time-consuming process. Businesses that needed workloads on both platforms had to put together VPN tunnels, coordinate networking hardware manually, and deal with complex configurations that could take weeks to set up properly. That changed at the end of 2025 when AWS and Google Cloud …
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Microsoft Just Made Copilot Permanent for Small Business — What to Check Before Your Next Renewal
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Mussawwir Sterrett
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July 27, 2026
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If your small business runs on Microsoft 365 something changed on July 1, 2026 that affects what you pay at your next renewal. Microsoft officially made two new plans permanent: Microsoft 365 Business Standard with Copilot at $23.50 per user per month and Microsoft 365 Business Premium with Copilot at $32 per user per month. Until now Copilot was either …
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