Articles about Amazon Web Services – Page 9 of 19

Travel giant Sabre bets big on multicloud, signing deal with Microsoft Azure weeks after a new deal with Amazon Web Services

Thanks to investments in container technology and microservices, Sabre is ready to embark on a multicloud infrastructure strategy, signing a… Read More

‘Amazon Rekognition is primed for abuse’: ACLU asks Amazon to stop selling facial recognition tech to local governments

Concerned about the use of facial recognition technology to detect and identify Americans walking down the street, the American Civil… Read More

Amazon Sumerian, the AWS tool for building AR/VR applications, is now generally available

Amazon Web Services is ready to let all of its customers start playing with Amazon Sumerian, a tool that helps… Read More

Amazon Web Services, Google, Microsoft, Slack and Apple tech leaders headline GeekWire Cloud Tech Summit

Many of the advances in cloud computing over the past decade were about getting the people out of the way,… Read More

Blockchain in the cloud: Microsoft and Amazon look to democratize the distributed ledger for developers

[Editor’s Note: Atul Ajoy is a 10th grader at Redmond High School, a tech enthusiast, startup founder, blogger and event organizer. He attended Microsoft Build in… Read More

Amazon Web Services is sitting on around $12.4 billion in deferred revenue

For the first time this week, Amazon disclosed how much revenue Amazon Web Services will eventually realize from multiyear cloud… Read More

AWS grows 49 percent in Q1 2018 to hit $5.4B in revenue

Amazon Web Services is setting the pace for the cloud computing market once again, growing 49 percent in its first… Read More

Microsoft’s Azure Container Instances, which lets you deploy containers with utter disregard for hardware, now generally available

When is a container serverless? That question might sound like troll bait for infrastructure geeks, but Microsoft’s Azure Container Instances,… Read More

Longtime Amazon Web Services customer Netflix said to be cozying up to Google

Netflix was arguably Amazon Web Services’ most important customer during its rise to the top of the public cloud market… Read More

Amazon Web Services adds new features to SageMaker and makes its AI-powered transcription services generally available

Developers using Amazon SageMaker to build machine-learning applications will now be able to take advantage of new computing resources and… Read More

Amazon Web Services launches AWS Secrets Manager and other new tools, as cloud customers continue to prove they need security help

As companies move more of their workloads into the cloud, too many of them are doing a poor job securing… Read More

GoDaddy signs multiyear deal with Amazon Web Services for ‘vast majority’ of its computing infrastructure

Internet domain name registrar GoDaddy has signed a multiyear deal with Amazon Web Services to migrate most of its computing… Read More

Amazon Web Services reveals more details on the thinking behind SageMaker, its machine-learning service for cloud developers

Machine-learning services promise to be one of the most competitive areas for cloud computing vendors over the next few years.… Read More

Amazon GameOn cloud service enables in-game competitions, with prizes fulfilled by the tech giant

Amazon has a new set of tools for game developers that lets them build in-game competitions, with prizes that can… Read More

How Atlassian moved Jira and Confluence users to Amazon Web Services, and what it learned along the way

If your business is built around servicing software developers who know exactly what state-of-the-art tools should be capable of doing,… Read More

Return of the JEDI: Why the cloud industry is closely eyeing a big Pentagon cloud contract

The Department of Defense is planning to have a cloud bake-off this year, soliciting proposals from the tech industry to… Read More

VMware and AWS roll out new services for the hybrid cloud and bring their joint product to Europe

VMware unveiled the latest step in its evolving partnership with Amazon Web Services Wednesday, bringing the VMware Cloud for AWS… Read More

Widespread outage at Amazon Web Services’ U.S. East region takes down Alexa, Atlassian developer tools

Problems with Amazon Web Services’ Direct Connect service took down several customers Friday morning using the cloud leader’s creaky U.S.… Read More

Why it might be time for Big Cloud to share the wealth with open-source startups

There’s no longer any point in ignoring the truth: during the age of open-source software, which was supposed to democratize… Read More

Dropbox saved almost $75 million over two years by building its own tech infrastructure

After making the decision to roll its own infrastructure and reduce its dependence on Amazon Web Services, Dropbox reduced its… Read More

Microsoft’s Guthrie claims Azure is seeing blockchain momentum, but that’s not moving the cloud needle any time soon

Microsoft Azure is seeing demand for cloud-based blockchain services, Microsoft Azure chief Scott Guthrie said Friday, but it doesn’t sound… Read More

Travel giant Expedia cuts jobs in tech infrastructure and operations teams

Expedia Inc. has cut about 30 jobs from its technology infrastructure and operations teams, most of them at the online… Read More

Amazon reportedly expanding chip design efforts, aiming at Echo, cameras, and AI

Amazon has been designing its own chips for a few years, ever since acquiring Annapurna Labs in 2016, but it… Read More

Amazon Web Services adds new at-rest encryption option for DynamoDB database users

DynamoDB users have a new encryption option from Amazon Web Services, as the cloud leader continues to try and make… Read More

Amazon Web Services hits $5B in quarterly revenue with no signs of slowing down

It looks like the whole cloud computing thing is going to work out well for Amazon. Amazon Web Services reported… Read More

Amazon Web Services catches Sqrrl, a security startup founded by ex-NSA staffers

Cloud security is going to be an even more important topic this year than ever, thanks to the Meltdown and… Read More

Comcast Cable signs new cloud deal with Amazon Web Services, building on its hybrid cloud strategy

Amazon Web Services will start out the new year with an expanded cloud commitment from Comcast Cable to deploy new… Read More

Amazon is expanding in Portland, as the company signs lease for new space

AWS Elemental is set to increase its presence in Portland, signing a lease to take over space in a building… Read More

Who will pay for Meltdown and Spectre? Chip flaws could leave a financial mess in their wake

2018 greeted CIOs around the planet in quite rude fashion, following the revelation of two 20-year-old undiscovered security flaws in… Read More

A week later, the long-term impact of the Meltdown and Spectre chip flaws is starting to become clearer

Cloud users and data center managers began to understand the performance effects of the patches required by the Meltdown/Spectre chip… Read More