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Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services cuts EC2 prices once again, as much as 21 percent in some cases

It’s once again cheaper to use Amazon Web Services. The leading cloud computing company announced price cuts Wednesday across the… Read More

Atlassian expands cloud infrastructure to Europe as it increases its reliance on AWS

European customers of Atlassian’s various cloud software products should see increases in performance with the introduction of European-based infrastructure running… Read More

Amazon exceeds Wall Street expectations for 1st quarter, CEO Jeff Bezos touts efforts in India

Amazon came in just above Wall Street expectations for the first quarter of 2017, posting sales of $35.7 billion, up 23… Read More

AWS revenue up 42 percent to $3.66 billion in Q1 2017, operating income reaches $890 million

The crown jewel of Amazon’s business, Amazon Web Services, posted a 42 percent jump in revenue during the first fiscal… Read More

$K UHD video feed from space

First live ultra-HD video from space features oohs, ahhs and zero-G ping pong

NASA and AWS Elemental showed off something completely different from the International Space Station today: the first live video in ultra-high-definition… Read More

Google Cloud’s Diane Greene thinks it has ‘a pretty good shot’ of overtaking AWS in five years

Place your bets: Google Cloud Platform head Diane Greene told attendees at the Forbes CIO Summit last night that she… Read More

Amazon Web Services set for hiring spree — new report shows 5,600 open positions

Amazon Web Services enjoys a healthy lead in the market for public cloud services, and it plans to hire thousands… Read More

Silicon Valley

‘Watch your back, Jeff Bezos’: Amazon sparks laughs on HBO’s ‘Silicon Valley’

HBO’s “Silicon Valley” comedy series presents a California-centric view of how tech is done (and undone), but Amazon CEO Jeff… Read More

With the release of Amazon Lex, AWS asks: Developers, can you build me a chatbot?

Now that Amazon Web Services has made public its Amazon Lex technology, which makes Alexa fetch another case of LaCroix… Read More

New goodies for AWS customers include database accelerators and the tech behind Alexa

Amazon Web Services trotted out a host of new features Wednesday for its industry-leading public cloud service, and couldn’t resist… Read More

A serverless nirvana? Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich on the future of the cloud

REDMOND, Wash. — Microsoft’s push into “serverless” computing aims to change the way developers use the cloud, and Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich says… Read More

This was Amazon’s highest-earning employee in 2016 — and it wasn’t Jeff Bezos

Amazon Web Services is a cloud powerhouse, a more than $12 billion enterprise that would be a significant company on… Read More

Microsoft adds new Azure tools to migrate data to the cloud and collaborate securely with partners

Microsoft this morning announced several new Azure tools and features focused on migrating data to the cloud and helping businesses work securely… Read More

Peggy Whitson on ISS

Amazon Web Services plays role in NASA’s first ultra-HD live video from space

NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson stars in the highest-resolution video ever broadcast live from the International Space Station, bur Amazon Web… Read More

Snowflake cloud data warehouse startup raises $100M; Madrona’s role reunites ex-Microsoft execs

Snowflake Computing, the Silicon Valley-based cloud data warehouse startup that just announced a new engineering center in the Seattle region,… Read More

Amazon Web Services to open data centers in Sweden in 2018, continuing global growth

Amazon Web Services said it will open data centers in Sweden next year to serve customers in Nordic countries such as… Read More

Powering ‘Cloud City’: What Seattle’s municipal utility has learned from using AWS and Azure

Sephir Hamilton is helping his organization grapple with major change. As the engineering and technology innovation officer at Seattle City… Read More

Cloud data warehouse startup Snowflake opens Seattle-area engineering office, plans big growth

Snowflake Computing, the Silicon Valley-based cloud data warehouse company led by former Microsoft exec Bob Muglia, is opening an engineering office in… Read More

Amazon Web Services jumps into call-center market with new ‘Amazon Connect’ service

Amazon Web Services just unveiled a new service for running call centers, dubbed Amazon Connect, leveraging the same technology used by Amazon.com’s own… Read More

Public cloud could become a utility like electricity, lifting AWS, Azure and others, Morgan Stanley says

The public cloud has the potential to become a global utility, analogous to electricity — driving higher valuations for cloud providers… Read More

Amazon Chime team responds to trademark suit, claims it wasn’t aware of competing Chime service

An Amazon Web Services employee claims the company had never heard of CafeX Communications and its competing Chime service when it… Read More

Analyst: AWS growth could ‘moderate’ as Microsoft and Google see new cloud momentum

Amazon Web Services’ growth “could moderate this year and next” amid rising competition from Microsoft and Google, according to a new… Read More

US government websites found to be slow, insecure, not mobile friendly and failing in accessibility

Federal agencies and officials have a lot on their plates these days, but a report from a Washington, D.C.-based think tank points… Read More

Amazon Web Services starts offering free cloud storage and computing for Alexa skills

Amazon Web Services will offer $100 in promotional credit and up to an additional $100/month to cover any extra cloud computing and storage… Read More

Amazon Web Services makes another acquisition and then evidence of it disappears

Amazon Web Services appears to have acquired Do.com, a San Francisco-based startup that aims to streamline meetings, for its new… Read More

Microsoft says Google’s cloud reliability claim vs. Azure and Amazon Web Services does not compute

A comment today by Google’s top cloud executive, taking a subtle jab at Amazon Web Services, isn’t sitting well with Microsoft for… Read More

Amazon Web Services makes another deal, acquiring Thinkbox media rendering tech company

Amazon Web Services has acquired Thinkbox Software, which makes technology used by media and entertainment architects and engineers to manage render farms… Read More

Microsoft Azure adds new data analytics, voice and facial recognition to its government cloud

Microsoft is beefing up its cloud capabilities for U.S. state and federal agencies, rolling out its PowerBI and HDInsight data… Read More

Podcast

The Week in Geek: To Snap or not to Snap? Plus, how AWS broke the internet

If you tried to use any service on the internet Tuesday, you likely discovered it was down. Now we know… Read More

Docker unveils new enterprise initiative, boosting software containers for big businesses

Docker is launching a new Enterprise Edition of its popular software container technology, along with an initiative to let partners certify their technology… Read More

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