The future of business depends on cloud: current legal and regulatory issues

As all businesses address how best to take advantage of AI, one thing that is certain is that a better understanding of cloud services is paramount. AI depends on cloud. The resilience of cloud infrastructure has therefore become critical to future business strategy.

Understanding the evolving legal, regulatory, and contractual landscape, and how to mitigate the risks of potential severe outages and disruption, is essential for both cloud providers and customers.

Please join us for this webinar where we will:

• Explore the current legal and regulatory landscape for cloud services across both regulated and non-regulated sectors, including recent developments from UK, EU, and global regulators.
• Share new research from Pinsent Masons highlighting market trends and persistent challenges in migrating critical workloads to the cloud and negotiating with hyperscale providers.
• Discuss best practices for contracting for operational resilience, including how to address severe but plausible scenarios and ensure continuity of service.
• Examine the role of the shared responsibility model in cloud resilience — and how misunderstandings can lead to gaps in risk management.
• Consider the impact of AI workloads on cloud resilience, including how increased compute demands and data dependencies are reshaping resilience planning.
• Look at cross-border data resilience and sovereignty issues, especially in light of evolving geopolitical and regulatory pressures.
• Offer practical guidance on incident response planning from a contractual perspective, including notification obligations, liability considerations, and lessons learned from recent high-profile outages.