Articles about Amazon Web Services – Page 5 of 19

Amazon sues former AWS exec for joining rival Google division as cloud wars escalate

Amazon’s pioneering cloud business gave the company an early lead in an emerging and lucrative industry but competition is heating… Read More

Amazon acquires enterprise flash storage startup E8 Storage

Amazon has acquired enterprise flash storage startup E8 Storage. Founded in 2014, the company sold a rack-scale software storage solution… Read More

Seattle engineer arrested in Capital One hack that affected 106M people

Seattle-based engineer Paige Thompson was arrested Monday for allegedly hacking into Capital One’s databases and gaining access to approximately 140,000… Read More

Amazon R&D and infrastructure spending spikes as tech giant staffs up on technical talent

Amazon is spending more cash to hire top technical workers in key growth areas as the Seattle company competes for… Read More

Amazon Web Services powers tech giant’s profits, again, but slower growth raises new questions

Amazon Web Services posted $8.4 billion in net sales and $2.1 billion in operating profits in the second quarter, continuing… Read More

Hello, neighbor! How Google Cloud is making its presence known in Amazon’s backyard

Google is planting its flag in Amazon territory. Google signage has been installed across the multiple buildings going up in… Read More

JPMorgan Chase expands Seattle engineering center to 100 people, plans to add hundreds more

JPMorgan Chase is building a major technology engineering center in Seattle, quietly growing to 100 people in its first year… Read More

Amazon Web Services rolls out Control Tower and Security Hub, courting big business customers

After seven months in preview, Amazon Web Services on Monday night announced the general availability of AWS Control Tower and… Read More

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Interview: Slack CTO explains the company’s tech strategy in its quest to rid the world of email

Workplace chat and collaboration technology company Slack is set to become a public company on Thursday, with implications for a… Read More

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Amazon Web Services’ Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec is preparing for a future in which data lives forever

Ridding themselves from the burden of managing hardware is one of the primary reasons why companies are moving their technology… Read More

Seattle startup Pulumi unveils new service for brand-new Amazon Web Services customers looking for help

If you want to take full advantage of cloud computing and providers like Amazon Web Services, it helps to have… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy supports federal regulation of facial-recognition technology

After widespread criticism of Amazon Web Services’ decision to sell cloud-based facial-recognition technology to law enforcement agencies, CEO Andy Jassy… Read More

Another open-source database company will tighten its licensing strategy, wary of Amazon Web Services

Cockroach Labs, the New York-based database company behind the open-source CockroachDB database, will change the terms of the license agreement… Read More

Why the looming end-of-support deadline for Windows Server 2008 is an enormous cloud migration opportunity

Deadlines have a way of getting your attention. On January 14th, 2020, Microsoft will stop providing security updates for Windows… Read More

Amazon Web Services’ infrastructure czar Peter DeSantis now part of Amazon’s inner circle, according to report

Peter DeSantis, who oversees the massive cloud computing infrastructure that Amazon Web Services has built in becoming the world’s leading… Read More

AWS Ground Station satellite control system is officially open for business

Six months after a sneak preview, Amazon Web Services has just raised the curtain on AWS Ground Station, its cloud-based… Read More

How Amazon Web Services’ Mai-Lan Tomsen Bukovec is preparing for a data explosion

One of the only certainties about the future of enterprise computing is that more data will be collected, processed, and… Read More

Working Geek: AWS Director Maureen Lonergan is a risk taker who finds courage in purpose

One might wonder if there’s any risk big enough to really frighten Maureen Lonergan. How about ducking out of the… Read More

Microsoft’s Scott Guthrie: If Amazon Web Services is the Yankees, we’re the Red Sox

As Microsoft began to realize its entire cloud service was offline Thursday, executive vice president Scott Guthrie was comparing his… Read More

Does Google really run the most reliable cloud service? Even its own sources are skeptical

The slide whizzed by during a Google Cloud Next keynote address last month in San Francisco, perhaps a little too… Read More

For the first time, Amazon’s own online sales make up less than half of its entire business

For the first time in Amazon’s history, the company’s first-party online retail sales represented less than half of its overall… Read More

AWS revenue approaches $8 billion in Q1, up 41 percent compared to last year

As bigger and bigger businesses take the plunge into cloud computing, Amazon Web Services is turning into a pretty big… Read More

How multiyear contracts with big business are changing the economics of the cloud

As it scaled its way to unicorn status and beyond over the last few years, Pinterest was more focused on… Read More

Apple reportedly spending $30 million a month on Amazon Web Services

Apple’s use of Amazon Web Services has increased over the past few years and is now projected to hit $360… Read More

Lockheed Martin joins the discussion about cloud computing services in space

Is the final frontier the next frontier for cloud computing? One of the presentations planned for Amazon’s re:MARS conference in… Read More

Alexa, certify me: Amazon Web Services launching training program for Alexa skill builders

Amazon Web Services plans to launch a certification program Tuesday that will give developers building so-called “skills” for its Echo… Read More

And then there were two: Amazon Web Services and Microsoft named finalists for the Pentagon’s $10B JEDI cloud contract

The U.S. Department of Defense narrowed down the list of contenders for its ten-year $10 billion cloud contract to the… Read More

Google takes aim at Amazon Web Services with Google Cloud for Retail

Google plans to launch one of its first vertical-market cloud services packages introduced under new CEO Thomas Kurian Wednesday at… Read More

Amazon Web Services adds more clean energy to its cloud with three new wind farm deals

More than 229 megawatts of clean power will be added to Amazon Web Services’ data centers by the end of… Read More

Top AI researchers call on Amazon to stop selling facial recognition technology to law enforcement

A group of artificial intelligence researchers — including this year’s winner of the Turing Award — issued a joint statement… Read More