AWS

Uber strikes deals with Google and Oracle to cut datacenter dependence

Ride-hailing biz 'modernizes infrastructure' by using someone else's computer

PaaS + IaaS14 Feb 2023 | 7

Big three cloud giants tighten grip as overall spending slows

The big get bigger

Networks07 Feb 2023 | 2

Power grid worries force Amazon to run Oregon datacenters using fuel cells

And not the green hydrogen kind

Systems06 Feb 2023 | 10

Wow, turns out cloud sales can slow down – eh, Amazon, Google?

As tech giants 'optimize' workforces, world optimizes amount of money it spends on computing services

PaaS + IaaS03 Feb 2023 | 13

AWS, Microsoft, Google among businesses owed money after FTX collapse

Join the queue, eh?

Personal Tech27 Jan 2023 | 5

Google institutional investor calls for wider cuts: 30k jobs

TCI Fund run by Brit billionaire Chris Hohn also wants ad biz to slash salaries

Off-Prem25 Jan 2023 | 53

Google's Pichai tells underlings exec bonuses will be clipped

Staff in Q&A session yesterday to discuss 12,000 job cuts

Off-Prem24 Jan 2023 | 12

Bill shock? The red ink of web services doesn’t come out of the blue

Opinion To avoid cloudy judgement, heed the weather forecast

PaaS + IaaS23 Jan 2023 | 29

AWS expands footprint at site of infamously flaky US-EAST-1 region

Virginia welcomes $35 billion investment plan with $140 million grant to help things along

Off-Prem23 Jan 2023 | 3

Basecamp details 'obscene' $3.2 million bill that caused it to quit the cloud

Reckons Dell kit could have stretched that dollar further

Off-Prem16 Jan 2023 | 99

AWS adds Superapp Grab's Asia-centric maps to its cloudy location service

Asia In Brief PLUS ServiceNow makes Japan a discrete region; Alibaba Cloud’s Singapore hub; US snipes at Korean network policy; and more

Software16 Jan 2023 | 1

2002 video streaming patent holder sues Amazon and Twitch

Both companies knew about the patent, claims lawsuit

Legal10 Jan 2023 | 22

Python Package Index found stuffed with AWS keys and malware

British developer uses homegrown scanning tool to check for risks

Software09 Jan 2023 | 20

Amazon slaps automatic encryption on S3 data

Ensures future security stuffups will take extra effort

PaaS + IaaS06 Jan 2023 | 15

The era of cloud colonialism has begun

Opinion Having claimed North America and Europe, the cloud giants hope to add Latin America and Africa to their empires

Off-Prem28 Dec 2022 | 40

Too big to live, too loved to die: Big Tech's billion dollar curse of the free

Opinion Users may be the product, but we come with a hell of a price tag

Off-Prem26 Dec 2022 | 215

AWS wins 5-year, $700m+ contract for cloud services to US Navy

Much money for Amazon, that is. Bezos heads to dockside after doomed JEDI deal

PaaS + IaaS20 Dec 2022 | 3

AWS strains to make Simple Storage Service not so simple to screw up

Not Amazon's fault buckets are exposed, but the loaded shotgun and your foot are all there ready and waiting

Security14 Dec 2022 | 22

Oracle clouds never go down, says Oracle's Larry Ellison

That summer heatwave in Britain? Our servers were just resting

SaaS13 Dec 2022 | 23

Ventana targets hyperscalers with customizable RISC-V server chip

RISC-V Summit Aims to take away the pain of designing an SoC in-house

Systems12 Dec 2022 | 5

Pentagon shares nine billion cloudy dollars between AWS, Google, Microsoft, Oracle

Begun, the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability has. Ended, the Sequel to JEDI has

PaaS + IaaS08 Dec 2022 | 7

Quantum computing is a different kind of computing, says AWS

RE:INVENT The intersection of computer science and physics

Systems05 Dec 2022 | 20

.NET open source is 'heavily under-funded' says AWS

RE:INVENT Amazon web arm investing in Microsoft's platform to help customers escape Windows

Software01 Dec 2022 | 25

Amazon unfreezes some hiring to expand its datacenter footprint

No matter what, the cloud must grow

Off-Prem30 Nov 2022 | 1

Processing data... in space: AWS powers Earth observation satellite payload

Orbiting sat suite includes machine learning models, cloud-managed edge runtime

AI + ML30 Nov 2022 | 2

Fortinet's cloud firewall ditches custom ASICs for Amazon's Graviton CPUs

You might say they've Arm-ed their security suite for battle

Off-Prem29 Nov 2022 |

AWS opens up preview access to instances run on Intel's Sapphire Rapids processors

Want to kick the tires early? You'll have to ask for an invitiation

PaaS + IaaS29 Nov 2022 |

Ever wondered how the AWS leviathan develops software?

re:Invent It's about small teams, microservices, bias towards serverless, and having the creator of Java on standby

Devops29 Nov 2022 | 13

AWS intros homebrew Graviton CPU tuned for HPC, network stack tuned to updated Nitro system

'Scalable Reliable Datagram' uses multi-path topography to smoke TCP

PaaS + IaaS29 Nov 2022 | 1

AWS joins the water positive gang, claims it will be there by 2030

That basically means more H₂O returned to the environment than is supplied

PaaS + IaaS28 Nov 2022 | 25

AWS fixes 'confused deputy' vulnerability in AppSync

Datadog security researchers found the flaw before miscreants did

Security22 Nov 2022 |

Amazon to spend $4.4b in India as it adds second AWS region

Meanwhile, Microsoft eyes subcontinent for cloud growth

PaaS + IaaS22 Nov 2022 | 2

AWS gives older EC2 instances a legacy lifeline

Preserves pre-2017 servers on its newer Nitro hardware

PaaS + IaaS22 Nov 2022 | 4

Amazon founder Bezos to donate 'majority' of $126bn fortune

Comment Climate change goals? Tick. Upping wages and improving working conditions for warehouse staff? Come on Jeff, charity begins at home

Offbeat15 Nov 2022 | 39

Euro clouds lodge another complaint against Microsoft over anti-competitive licenses

Updated CISPE says Redmond's recent concessions did not level the playing field

Off-Prem09 Nov 2022 | 27

Amazon freezes corporate hiring amid worsening economic outlook

The decision comes as the e-commerce giant stuggles with soaring energy prices and cash-strapped customers

Off-Prem03 Nov 2022 | 7

Kyndryl loses $281m in the quarter as modernization agenda continues

How to turn a classic infrastructure biz into something fit for the cloud era

On-Prem03 Nov 2022 | 5

Aviatrix releases tool to help enterprises prevent cloud network costs spiraling

Just as providers prepare to crank up their fees

Networks03 Nov 2022 | 1

The world was promised 'cloud magic'. So much for that fairy tale

Comment You're paying too much for too much, and the providers know it

PaaS + IaaS02 Nov 2022 | 76

Oracle and Huawei clouds the big movers on Gartner's conjured quadrilateral

AWS warned for burning customers, Azure for 'punitive' licensing, while Google's losses are a worry

Off-Prem01 Nov 2022 | 7

Economic headwinds be damned, cloud migrations 'not stopping'

Don't listen to the claims of slowing growth – Gartner has the lowdown

Off-Prem31 Oct 2022 | 5

Macs still growing as Apple sidesteps dark clouds over big tech

Ducks Zuck's bad luck as fanbois chuck bucks at M2 SoC... but CFO warns it's unlikely to last

Personal Tech28 Oct 2022 | 3

AWS warns of demand slowdown as customers seek to cut spend

Amazon shares pummelled, but cloud operation thinks Graviton CPUs can save the day

Off-Prem28 Oct 2022 | 5

Government IT provider UKCloud goes into liquidation

Erstwhile national cloud hero drowns in unpaid debts

Off-Prem26 Oct 2022 | 40

AWS users can finally use Nitro Enclaves on Arm Graviton EC2 instances

Just don't forget Enclave data is held in memory and costs can ramp when processing digital reams

SaaS25 Oct 2022 |

Larry Ellison fought internal battle to kill Oracle's first-generation cloud

But Gen 2 faces an uphill battle in market share and technology

PaaS + IaaS24 Oct 2022 | 11

AWS buys 100+ diesel generators... and that's just for Irish datacenters

Server farm power concerns as winter nears and fears of blackouts grow

On-Prem24 Oct 2022 | 28

UBS throws lot in with Microsoft, migrating 50% of apps to Azure

Five-year blueprint to modernize tech estate, but cloud still not for everyone in finance sector

PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2022 | 10

Public cloud prices to surge in US and Europe next year

CANALYS CHANNELS FORUM Software-as-a-hostage? Freeing yourself from the fluffy white chains is not easy, even in face of inflation

PaaS + IaaS20 Oct 2022 | 34

AWS Snowball edge compute capacity snowballs beyond 100 vCPUs, 400GB of memory

There's a fat AMD Rome under the hood and 28TB of storage too

On-Prem20 Oct 2022 |

FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweight hypervisor

"Serverless" microVMs further blur the line between containers and virtual machines

Virtualization19 Oct 2022 | 9

AWS targets desktop virtualization rigs with lift and shift to cloudy DaaS

Citrix can do this too. Hyperconverged infrastructure's salad days serving virtual PCs might be ending

Virtualization18 Oct 2022 | 3

Nvidia not cutting it? Google and Amazon’s latest AI chips have arrived

GCN Intel’s Sapphire Rapids CPUs and Mount Evans SmartNICs pop their heads above ground, too

AI + ML11 Oct 2022 | 3

Microsoft drops the C bomb on financial services – 'compliance'

Windows giant know exactly how to get these types fired up

Off-Prem05 Oct 2022 | 3

Amazon lets you rent Ubuntu Pro. Yes, it's Linux on the virtual desktop

Insert your Year of Linux joke here, we dare you

Virtualization30 Sep 2022 | 7

AWS, Microsoft, Google own 72% of Euro customer cloud spending

Democratizing IT? The next biggest 3 in region are also US headquartered giants

Off-Prem29 Sep 2022 | 5