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MCIT Advances Digital Sovereignty Strategy as Egypt Strengthens Cybersecurity Ambitions

CAIRO — Egypt is accelerating efforts to strengthen digital sovereignty through a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy designed to protect critical digital infrastructure, enhance economic resilience, support emerging technologies and position the country as a regional hub for data, cloud services and digital innovation. Speaking at the opening session of the fifth edition of the CAISEC 2026…

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Europe Wants More Than Regulation. It Wants Its Own Tech Ecosystem.

For much of the past two decades, Europe’s influence in the global technology industry has stemmed less from the companies it produced than from the rules it imposed. While Silicon Valley created the world’s dominant digital platforms and China built a state-backed technology ecosystem of its own, Brussels became known primarily as the global regulator […]

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Enterprise Spotlight: Rethinking cloud strategy in the age of AI

Cloud computing has reached a crossroads. The high cost and data sensitivity of AI workloads are raising the appeal of private clouds, even as neoclouds and sovereign clouds shake up the cloud provider landscape. New cyberthreats, shifting compute requirements, and management complexity are adding to cloud complications.

Download the June 2026 issue of the Enterprise Spotlight from the editors…

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Telecom Egypt and Huawei Deepen Fiber Push as Egypt Accelerates Digital Infrastructure Expansion

Telecom Egypt and Huawei have launched a new Fiber-to-the-Room (FTTR) service aimed at strengthening Egypt’s fixed broadband infrastructure as competition intensifies across the Middle East and Africa over fiber networks, cloud ecosystems and AI-ready digital infrastructure. The rollout reflects a broader strategic shift within Egypt’s telecommunications sector, where operators are increasingly…

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China launches world’s first underwater data centre

China has launched what officials describe as the world’s first commercially operational underwater data centre, marking a major step in energy-efficient digital infrastructure development. The underwater facility has been built near Shanghai in the Lingang Special Area and is located around 35 metres below sea level. The project was jointly developed by Chinese authorities and […]

Video has evolved from monitoring to vision intelligence

Enterprises are sitting on a massive, underutilized asset: the data produced by their physical environments, especially from network cameras and sensors.

Historically seen only as “security devices,” modern cameras are now rich data generators. In fact, the “Axis Perspectives Report 2026” shows that the number of organizations using video systems for business intelligence nearly doubled between…

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Availability Zone

An availability zone (AZ) is an isolated data centre within a cloud region. AZs in the same region share low-latency private network links but use physically separate buildings, power, cooling, and uplinks, so a fault in one AZ does not propagate to the others. AZs are the cloud's unit of fault isolation below the region level.

Why multi-AZ matters

  • Hardware failures. A single AZ can lose…
Region

A region in cloud computing is a geographic area in which a cloud provider operates a cluster of data centres. Regions are independent of each other: an outage in one does not affect another, services in one cannot directly reach storage in another, and costs differ across regions. Region selection is one of the first architectural decisions for any cloud deployment.

Why regions exist

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EC2

Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) is AWS's primary virtual machine service. EC2 provisions virtual servers (instances) in minutes, billed by the second, with a wide selection of CPU, memory, GPU, and network configurations. EC2 launched in 2006 and remains the bedrock compute primitive on which much of AWS is built.

Core concepts

  • Instance type. A family + size that defines CPU, memory,…
Lambda

AWS Lambda is Amazon's serverless function-as-a-service (FaaS). It runs short-lived functions in response to events, scales transparently from zero to thousands of concurrent invocations, and bills only for execution time. Lambda is the foundational serverless service in AWS and the pattern most other clouds modelled their FaaS offerings on.

How it works

Code is packaged as a deployment…

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