Articles about Amazon Web Services – Page 11 of 19

Amazon stock surges 13% after earnings report, making Jeff Bezos the world’s richest again

Amazon stock is soaring Friday morning after crushing earnings expectations and disclosing that it now employs more than 540,000 people… Read More

Amazon Web Services crosses $1B in operating profit as revenue jumps 42 percent to $4.6B

Amazon Web Services continues to grow quite strongly despite its size, and it crossed an interesting milestone during the third… Read More

Amazon Web Services launches powerful new cloud instances for AI research backed by Nvidia’s GPUs

All the major cloud vendors are betting that artificial intelligence services will become a crucial part of cloud computing over… Read More

Amazon Web Services chief Jassy on HQ2 plans: ‘That’s above my pay grade’

As cities across the U.S. fall all over themselves to pitch themselves as the best destination for Amazon’s second headquarters,… Read More

Report: The Pentagon plans to increase its use of cloud computing in security push

After his recent trip to the West Coast to check out how cloud tech companies are fending off cybersecurity attacks,… Read More

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison slams Amazon Web Services in OpenWorld keynote, also mentions new database product

Given an hour in front of thousands of his company’s most important customers Sunday evening, Oracle co-founder and executive chairman… Read More

Gartner: Amazon Web Services on top of the public cloud, as Alibaba gains the most ground

The top four major public cloud vendors all grew faster than the overall market last year, according to a new… Read More

Amazon Web Services plans Middle East operating region as cloud computing goes global

By 2019, there will be Amazon Web Services data centers in just about every corner of the world following Monday’s… Read More

Amazon hiring 2,000 people in New York City, opening big new Manhattan office for AWS, Amazon Fashion and more

Amazon is gearing up for a big expansion in the Big Apple. The company will open a new 360,000-square-foot office… Read More

Qumulo unveils next generation of its file storage system, now available on Amazon Web Services

After raising $130 million over five years, Qumulo is ready to reveal what it thinks is the biggest product launch… Read More

Amazon Web Services shakes up cloud pricing with per-second billing

Pay by the hour for cloud computing? That’s so last decade. Amazon Web Services today announced a new pricing structure… Read More

Oracle’s Larry Ellison takes aim at Amazon Web Services, promises a new “self-driving” database

Say what you want about Oracle executive chairman and chief technology officer Larry Ellison, but he hasn’t lost his passion… Read More

Survey: Half of all cloud customers are running in more than one cloud

Cloud computing was supposed to simplify the process of deploying enough infrastructure to support a company’s business applications, but it’s… Read More

Hundreds gather in downtown Portland to say goodbye to AWS Elemental’s Sam Blackman

Amos Blackman, younger brother of AWS Elemental co-founder Sam Blackman, probably put it best during a morning of tributes to… Read More

Why it may be time for Amazon to seriously consider spinning off Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services is arguably Amazon’s second-greatest creation, after the construction of a retail empire that has done so much… Read More

Target reportedly checking out of Amazon Web Services as tech giant’s retail ambitions grow

If you’re a chief information officer at a large or medium-size retailer that has embraced cloud computing while feeling the… Read More

VMware’s hybrid cloud product for Amazon Web Services now generally available

VMware customers who would like to get in on some of the benefits of cloud computing without having to rip… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy to lead Uber? Nope, not going to happen

As the summer-long search for a new Uber CEO rolls along, a new name surfaced Friday as a possible candidate:… Read More

Zillow shifts Zestimate home valuation tool to the cloud, claims better accuracy than ever

As thousands of scientists work to improve Zillow’s Zestimate, the company said today its home valuation tool is more accurate… Read More

Amazon Web Services working on mysterious Alexa-powered enterprise collaboration service

Amazon is looking to staff up a “New AWS/Alexa Service” focused on enterprise collaboration, communication and document sharing, according to… Read More

Amazon Web Services taps machine learning to tackle security with Macie

The fruits of Amazon Web Services’ acquisition of harvest.ai arrived Monday with the announcement of Macie, a new service that… Read More

Hulu’s first bet on the cloud goes to Amazon Web Services, joining Netflix on rival’s platform

Hulu, the streaming video service run by a consortium of content companies, is using Amazon Web Services to provide the… Read More

Amazon Web Services chooses its Kubernetes path, joins Cloud Native Computing Foundation

Just weeks after Microsoft signaled its support for a key cloud computing industry foundation, Amazon Web Services has followed suit,… Read More

Amazon Web Services’ Chinese partner is telling cloud customers in China that VPNs are not allowed

In another example of how tech companies are forced to navigate tricky waters in order to operate in China, Amazon… Read More

How AWS lets Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos spend billions on the future

Jeff Bezos owes Andy Jassy a beer. Or maybe a small Pacific island. Time and time again, Jassy’s Amazon Web… Read More

Another strong quarter for AWS: 42 percent jump in revenue to $4.1B

Amazon Web Services continues to drive the cloud computing industry. The cloud division of Amazon reported a 42 percent increase… Read More

Report: Amazon Web Services warming up to Kubernetes for container management

If the cloud world really does settle on Kubernetes as the de facto standard for managing containerized workloads, Amazon Web… Read More

New, simpler sign-in experience for Amazon Web Services users coming soon

Amazon Web Services is simplifying the way users can sign into their accounts, dumping a clunky web address that used… Read More

Report: Amazon Web Services working with VMware on hybrid cloud product for data centers

In what would be a strategy shift for Amazon Web Services, the public cloud market leader is apparently thinking about… Read More

Amazon Web Services adds IP protection while dropping controversial patent clause from user agreement

Around the same time it modified its basic user agreement to drop a patent-related clause that troubled customers, Amazon Web… Read More