Tag: AWS

May 3, 2023

Oracle is set to cut storage pricing and add major updates to its cloud data warehouse service, Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse, in an effort to take on competing services from rivals including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google and Snowflake.The […]

May 1, 2023

The big three cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft, Google) all reported earnings last week, and the word on every cloud executive’s lips was optimization. To wit, “Customers continue to evaluate ways to optimize their cloud spending in response to these tough […]

January 23, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has revealed plans to invest $35 billion in the US state of Virginia to expand its operations between now and 2040. Virginia is home to the company’s US-EAST-1 region, which has suffered significant outages and other […]

December 19, 2022

As I noted recently, AWS seems to be getting religion about “integration as an essential product feature.” There’s plenty of progress to be made, but it feels like the exact right thing for AWS to do. The question is why […]

November 7, 2022

Cloud technology is transforming the future of business. A growing number of companies are finding new ways to leverage the cloud to improve their operations. Gartner conducted a survey of nearly 270 tech company leaders, which showed that cloud technology […]

October 28, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has reported third-quarter revenue growth of 27.5%, its slowest year-on-year rise since the company began reporting its finances separately in 2014. The cloud giant’s revenue for the quarter was $20.5 billion, while AWS’s operating income was […]

August 1, 2022

It’s one thing for CIOs to say that cloud computing will see the highest rate of spending growth in 2022, as recorded in a Morgan Stanley survey. It’s quite another thing to actually spend that money. But spending they are, […]

July 27, 2022

Google parent company Alphabet posted strong second quarter results on Tuesday, buoyed by the momentum of its cloud business, that continued to grow by 35% year-on-year. The cloud unit surpassed $6 billion in quarterly cloud revenue for the first time, […]

May 13, 2022

Building on top of its recently launched serverless application platform Workers and the R2 object storage service, Cloudflare is releasing a new serverless database, dubbed D1, to take on databases from AWS, Microsoft Azure, GCP and Oracle. The company claims […]

April 26, 2022

Random numbers are in demand for a wide variety of use cases, from computer encryption to lotteries and gambling, as well as for scientific research. Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace now offers a quantum computing-based random number generation service, developed […]

April 22, 2022

Amazon Web Services has made AWS Amplify Studio generally available. A visual development interface for AWS Amplify, AWS Amplify Studio is intended to simplify front-end and back-end development for web and mobile applications. The point-and-click visual development environment extends the […]

April 19, 2022

Governments are increasingly in need of intelligent platforms capable of collecting, cleansing, filtering, and analyzing large amounts of data. This wide range of data processes can be harnessed to create a “single version of the truth”, allowing them to see […]

March 11, 2022

Google has announced its plans to pledge $3m over the next five years as well as hundreds of hours of its engineers’ time to make it easier to move data away from its services as well as those of other […]

March 9, 2022

Reliance on cloud is growing rapidly—and with some surprising new trends. Most notably, Microsoft Azure seems to be either closing the gap, or has slightly surpassed, Amazon Web Services (AWS) with some users. Specifically, Azure appears to have passed AWS […]

February 4, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) chalked up the biggest year-on-year revenue gain in its history during the fourth quarter of 2021, with the Covid-19 pandemic continuing to fuel demand for its public cloud offerings. The final quarter of 2021 saw Amazon.com’s […]

January 21, 2022

Google Cloud launched the Anthos platform in April 2019, promising customers a way to run Kubernetes workloads on-premises, in the Google Cloud, and, crucially, in other major public clouds including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure. Speaking at Google […]

January 18, 2022

Industry clouds are nothing new. In the beginning, public clouds providers abounded until the market normalized around the big three: Google, Microsoft, and AWS. The players that could not keep up often declared that they would become a vertically oriented […]

December 21, 2021

As more and more aspects of human life continue to move online, the need to dramatically scale the internet is only increasing. This trend began many years ago (we could say during the dotcom boom) and has seen many iterations […]

December 6, 2021

Amidst all the news from AWS re:Invent last week—mainframe modernization, database updates, ARM-based Graviton3, etc.—one thing might have slipped your notice yet deserves the spotlight: Amazon Linux 2022. AWS CEO Adam Selipsky didn’t mention it in his keynote, though it […]

December 6, 2021

Records have been written for thousands of years, in many scripts and on many media. Clay tablets, stone tablets, wax tablets, papyrus, parchment, and paper all preceded digital media. In our hurry to move from paper to digital media, the […]