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Practical guides on enterprise AI platforms, agent development, RAG pipelines, data governance, and responsible AI — from Cloud2's engineers.

AI without the right data foundation is just demos. These articles cover enterprise AI architecture, agent-driven development, RAG pipelines, data platforms, and the governance and security questions that actually matter when deploying AI at scale. Written by Cloud2 engineers building production AI systems for Nordic enterprises.

The business case for AI governance investment AI generated image

AI

14 Aug 2026

 · 9 min read

The business case for AI governance investment

AI governance is not a compliance cost but a business investment. How to build the financial case, what the return looks like, and what happens to organizations that skip this step.

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What happens when a CFO asks: what is our AI strategy? AI generated image

AI

6 Aug 2026

 · 6 min read

What happens when a CFO asks: what is our AI strategy?

Most organizations will face this in 2026: a CFO asks, what is our AI strategy? Why the document-driven approach is failing, what the question really exposes, and how disciplined organizations answer it.

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AI without governance is just shadow IT with better marketing AI generated image

AI

4 Aug 2026

 · 10 min read

AI without governance is just shadow IT with better marketing

The next AI advantage belongs to companies that move fast and stay in control. Why governance is the steering wheel that lets you put AI into production safely, and how to start with one real use case.

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Run Claude in your own AWS environment: Cloud2 is now an Anthropic Authorised Reseller

AI

Cloud

8 Jun 2026

 · 3 min read

Run Claude in your own AWS environment: Cloud2 is now an Anthropic Authorised Reseller

Nordic organizations can now purchase Anthropic's Claude AI models directly from Cloud2 via Amazon Bedrock with EU data residency and enterprise-grade governance from day one.

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AI Is Reshaping Business Faster Than the Industrial Revolution: Most Organizations Are Not Ready

AI

21 May 2026

 · 5 min read

AI Is Reshaping Business Faster Than the Industrial Revolution: Most Organizations Are Not Ready

AI is not another software trend. It is a fundamental restructuring of how companies operate. The winners will be the ones who can operationalize change reliably at scale.

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How We Compressed 3 Months of Data Platform Work Into 2 Weeks

Data

11 Mar 2026

 · 6 min read

How We Compressed 3 Months of Data Platform Work Into 2 Weeks

Building a data platform on Microsoft Fabric should be straightforward. So why does it still take months? Because the hard part was never the technology.

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Is Your AI High-Risk? A 5-minute Assessment for Business Leaders

AI

17 Feb 2026

 · 6 min read

Is Your AI High-Risk? A 5-minute Assessment for Business Leaders

Four questions to determine if your AI system faces mandatory EU AI Act compliance by August 2026. Covers the eight high-risk categories, obligations, and practical next steps.

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Cloud2 Achieves AWS Security Competency Across Three Core Domains, Setting a New Benchmark for Nordic Cloud Security

AI

19 Nov 2025

 · 3 min read

Cloud2 Achieves AWS Security Competency Across Three Core Domains, Setting a New Benchmark for Nordic Cloud Security

Cloud2 has officially secured the AWS Security Services Competency, not in one narrow slice of security, but across three distinct domains: Application Security, Compliance and Privacy, Infrastuctu...

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Cloud2 and 2NS: Security testing of the twoAI-platform

AI

22 Oct 2025

 · 2 min read

Cloud2 and 2NS: Security testing of the twoAI-platform

2NS conducted a security assessment of the twoAI platform developed by Cloud2. The goal of the testing was to verify the software’s level of security and to obtain external expert validation for Cl...

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Definition of AInsanity

AI

15 Oct 2025

 · 6 min read

Definition of AInsanity

Allegedly Einstein stated that the definition of insanity is:

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The Day I Realized I'm the Fax Machine

AI

15 Oct 2025

 · 5 min read

The Day I Realized I'm the Fax Machine

Back when the Nokia Communicator was the king of pockets, men were made of steel and ships of wood, I worked at a place where the future was still only a vision. There was a daily process with a cu...

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Agent-Driven Development: Empowering the Next Phase With Platform Engineering

Platform Engineering

AI

14 Oct 2025

 · 6 min read

Agent-Driven Development: Empowering the Next Phase With Platform Engineering

This blog is part of our Platform Engineering series. For a deeper understanding of our perspective on platform engineering, check out our other posts:

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From Boring to Magical: Automating Daily Workflows with twoAI, MCP, Microsoft Fabric & GraphQL

AI

6 Oct 2025

 · 2 min read

From Boring to Magical: Automating Daily Workflows with twoAI, MCP, Microsoft Fabric & GraphQL

Daily workflows can be… well, boring. Endless clicking through dashboards, writing repetitive queries, and manually sorting data — it’s the kind of work that drains energy and slows innovation.

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Enterprise Grade Genai from the Start

AI

18 Sep 2025

 · 3 min read

Enterprise Grade Genai from the Start

Getting started with Cloud2 feels the same whether you’re a 25,000-employee enterprise or a specialized product team. Enterprise leaders don’t have the luxury of waiting months for AI experiments t...

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AI with Limitless Integrations Without a Hassle

AI

19 Aug 2025

 · 3 min read

AI with Limitless Integrations Without a Hassle

In today’s AI-saturated world, generative AI isn’t just a novelty—it’s everywhere. At home, in schools, in hobbies, and yes, at work. But here’s the catch: most AI setups are still stuck in a box. ...

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Grano x GenAI

AI

19 Aug 2025

 · 2 min read

Grano x GenAI

GRANO AND CLOUD2 ENHANCE EMMI DAM SYSTEM WITH AWS-POWERED AI TAGGING

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Buzzwords, Bots & Breakthroughs -Fictional summer short novel about AI

AI

10 Jul 2025

 · 5 min read

Buzzwords, Bots & Breakthroughs -Fictional summer short novel about AI

Emma wasn’t new to bold visions. As Chief Operating Officer of ACME Oy, a rapidly scaling B2B tech services firm, she had seen buzzwords come and go — digital transformation, agile revolutions, eve...

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AWS Summit Stockholm 2025: Where Cloud Strategy Meets GenAI Reality

AI

30 Jun 2025

 · 3 min read

AWS Summit Stockholm 2025: Where Cloud Strategy Meets GenAI Reality

The AWS Summit Stockholm 2025 once again delivered a packed venue, a strong technical agenda, and a clear vision of where cloud transformation is heading. But for me, this year’s event was less abo...

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Why Multi-Agent Systems Are the Next Step for AI in the Enterprise

AI

23 Jun 2025

 · 3 min read

Why Multi-Agent Systems Are the Next Step for AI in the Enterprise

Adopting AI has meant integrating assistants like ChatGPT or Copilot into daily tasks. These tools are useful — but they’re just the beginning. As AI maturity grows, so does the need for orchestrat...

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Press Release: Ai-Control-Room

AI

30 Apr 2025

 · 3 min read

Press Release: Ai-Control-Room

Own need drove innovation: AI Control Room enhances cloud company Cloud2's core function – and is now also a product for sale Agents accelerated ticket processing so much that even the developers ...

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AI without the WTF: quicker Than Explaining Memes to Your parent

AI

18 Nov 2024

 · 3 min read

AI without the WTF: quicker Than Explaining Memes to Your parent

In today’s fast-paced tech landscape, integrating artificial intelligence (AI among friends) isn’t just a shiny add-on; it’s mission-critical. But let’s face it—getting AI off the ground in a way t...

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AWS DataZone – Enhancing Data Management

Data

9 Dec 2023

 · 2 min read

AWS DataZone – Enhancing Data Management

AWS DataZone is not just a tool; it’s a comprehensive solution for various data management challenges:

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Improving Document Processing with Intelligent Document Processing and Generative AI

AI

29 Aug 2023

 · 3 min read

Improving Document Processing with Intelligent Document Processing and Generative AI

In today’s data-driven world, organizations often find themselves grappling with the challenges of efficiently handling and analyzing large volumes of documents. The conventional approaches to docu...

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Use AWS Clean Rooms when sharing sensitive data

Data

30 Jan 2023

 · 2 min read

Use AWS Clean Rooms when sharing sensitive data

AWS Clean Rooms is a powerful tool for organizations that want to collaborate and analyze collective datasets without revealing underlying data to one another. One of the key features of AWS Clean ...

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Ain't no mountain high enough!

AI

19 Nov 2019

 · 4 min read

Ain't no mountain high enough!

Vielä muutama vuosi sitten oli yleistä törmätä aatteeseen:

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Naked Domain Nightmare!

AI

2 Sep 2019

 · 3 min read

Naked Domain Nightmare!

Since the release of AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) in 2009, system administrators have struggled with the fundamentals of Internet: zone apex and DNS.

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