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
Amazon adds 2.7 gigawatts of renewable energy to its operations But the question remains whether it is polluting more or less Off-Prem21 Sep 2022 | 1
Uber reels from 'security incident' in which cloud systems seemingly hijacked Updated AWS and G Suite admin accounts likely popped, HackerOne bug bounty page hit, and more Cyber-crime16 Sep 2022 | 44
Remember when Microsoft was going to put Azure in space? It's still trying 'Cloud connectivity' hits different this time Networks14 Sep 2022 | 4
Microsoft scales up Azure's Policy-as-code in 'new approach' The code's on GitHub for admins to play with Off-Prem12 Sep 2022 |
Amazon CEO says company will slow hiring rate, no hard return to office planned Anyone fancy renting some office space? PaaS + IaaS08 Sep 2022 | 2
VMware’s Amazonian incarnation drops requirement to run on dedicated hosts VMware Explore vSphere users can start smaller without paying cluster-bucks Virtualization02 Sep 2022 | 5
Hiding a phishing attack behind the AWS cloud Scammers are using cloud services to create and host web pages that can be used to lure victims into handing over their credentials Security22 Aug 2022 | 7
Qualcomm readying new Arm server chip based on Nuvia acquisition AWS said to be taking an interest in homegrown silicon, meaning chipmaker must have a functional demo Systems19 Aug 2022 |
AWS takes a shot at the private 5G network Well, more like 4G LTE right now, and you'll probably need someone to put up the radio Networks12 Aug 2022 | 1
VMware offers cloudy upgrade lifeline to legacy vCenter users But warns 'upcoming major release of vSphere' will break some plugins Virtualization12 Aug 2022 | 9
AWS and Splunk partner for faster cyberattack response Black Hat OCSF initiative will give enterprise security teams an open standard for moving and analyzing threat data Security11 Aug 2022 |
Google Cloud expands to Thailand, Malaysia and New Zealand Hopes to tap expected growth as it levels up to match rivals' presences Off-Prem10 Aug 2022 |
Tiers before bedtime: AWS updates Lambda pricing structure 'Time to update your spreadsheets,' expert says of 'inscrutable' changes Devops08 Aug 2022 | 3
Windows 11 comes to AWS EC2 as a VM import option UEFI is sorted, but BYO licenses are required Virtualization03 Aug 2022 |
AWS still growing amid talk of global economic woes No stopping the cloud computing division but losses mount on retail side as consumers catch a cold PaaS + IaaS29 Jul 2022 |