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AWS

King of the Cloud: How the Seattle region is positioned to reinvent technology, again

In 2003, a group of Amazon.com engineers had a radical idea: offer outsiders access to the same type of infrastructure that… Read More

Why Tableau just hired Amazon Web Services guru Adam Selipsky to be its new CEO

Perhaps no one is more excited for Adam Selipsky to take over Tableau’s CEO seat than his predecessor. You could… Read More

Tableau hires Amazon vet Adam Selipsky as new CEO; co-founder Christian Chabot stays as chairman

For the first time since it launched nearly 14 years ago, Tableau Software has a new leader. The Seattle-based data… Read More

Amazon introduces by-the-hour pricing for WorkSpaces, a Windows-anywhere cloud service

Amazon today made it cheaper, or at least more flexible, for companies to let their workers access WorkSpaces, a secure Windows… Read More

Microsoft debuts Linux PowerShell scripting language, with competitors AWS and VMware as launch partners

Amazon Web Services and VMware as Microsoft launch partners? You read it right. As part of its move toward more… Read More

Adam Selipsky, sales and marketing head at Amazon Web Services, leaving company

Adam Selipsky, the head of sales and marketing at Amazon Web Services and a lieutenant to AWS CEO Andy Jassy,… Read More

Amazon Web Services announces Layer 7 application load balancer, 47% cut in cost of Elastic Block Store ‘snapshots’

Werner Vogels, Amazon Web Services’s chief technology officer, this morning announced a new application load balancer as part of the… Read More

Google acquires cloud commerce company Orbitera, embracing ‘multi-cloud world’

Update: Google and Orbitera are not disclosing terms of the deal but TechCrunch reports the startup sold for just over… Read More

Microsoft Azure just behind Amazon Web Services in Gartner’s new IaaS rankings; Google is a distant third

For the third straight year, Microsoft Azure ranks just behind Amazon Web Services in the coveted upper-right corner of Gartner’s annual “Magic Quadrant” ranking… Read More

Amazon Web Services specialist Engine Yard reaches ‘huge milestone’ with new version of AWS orchestration product

Engine Yard, a San Francisco-based Platform as a Service (PaaS) company, has released version 5 of its eponymous development environment —… Read More

Amazon Web Services releases version 5.0.0 of Elastic MapReduce, which updates eight Hadoop projects

Amazon Web Services said it has released version 5.0.0 of its Elastic MapReduce (EMR) service, which Amazon said quickly processes very… Read More

New stats: Microsoft’s commercial cloud revenue nears $10B a year

Revenue from Microsoft’s commercial cloud business, including Azure and Office 365, approached $10 billion in the fiscal year ended June 30, up… Read More

Podcast

GeekWire Radio: Amazon vs. Facebook, lessons from Pokémon Go, and a real-world ‘Clue Quest’

This week on the GeekWire radio show and podcast: We start with a roundup of second quarter earnings, where Amazon again blew away… Read More

Amazon Web Services sales climb 58%, hit new record of nearly $2.9B

Amazon Web Services posted record revenue and operating income in the second quarter ended June 30, as the world’s largest cloud-services organization continued… Read More

Can Amazon Web Services keep up its torrid pace? Cloud juggernaut eyes $10B in yearly revenue

Amazon Web Services has been essential in keeping Amazon profitable. Last quarter, the cloud computing platform accounted for 56 percent of… Read More

Amazon says 26 AWS services meet tough new credit-card security standard

Twenty-six services within the Amazon Web Services cloud offering have been certified as conforming to a stringent credit-card security standard… Read More

Amazon Web Services makes Device Farm smartphone-testing service generally available

  Amazon Web Services today opened up generally availability of its Device Farm remote access service, which allows for testing of… Read More

Google Cloud Platform opens its first West Coast region, cutting latency for users

Google Cloud Platform today opened its first West Coast cloud region, named us-west1, in The Dalles, Ore. Testing shows the new… Read More

Gartner study: Amazon Web Services edges out Microsoft Azure for Infrastructure as a Service

Amazon Web Services scored slightly higher than Microsoft’s Azure in Gartner’s comprehensive Infrastructure as a Service assessment, released by the research… Read More

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services expands EC2’s powerful ‘run command’ to outside servers and VMs

Amazon Web Services has added the ability to use the Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)’s powerful “run command” feature with a single log-in to… Read More

Azure rising: Microsoft will be largest Infrastructure as a Service vendor by 2019, says new Morgan Stanley survey

A new, international survey of 100 CIOs has good news for cloud companies — especially Microsoft — and, predictably, bad news for… Read More

Allrecipes finds the perfect dining partner, picks Microsoft’s Azure to handle spikes in traffic

It’s 5:15 p.m. and 60 degrees on a rainy November 30 at your home in Miami. You go to Allrecipes seeking inspiration.… Read More

Amazon Web Services expands its text-messaging service to phones in 200 countries

Organizations are increasingly using cell phone text messages to verify log-in credentials, notify customers of their account status or even… Read More

Long-awaited AWS Elastic File System, while pricey and limited, is ‘one more step toward real-world IT’

After a beta period stretching nearly 15 months, Amazon Web Services today made its Elastic File System (EFS) generally available.… Read More

Amazon Web Services adds Mumbai as a region, to better serve huge Indian market

Amazon Web Services has added a new cloud computing region in Mumbai, India — its first in the country — to better serve the… Read More

Feds certify Amazon and Microsoft clouds to handle sensitive government data

Amazon Web Services and Microsoft both said today that parts of their respective cloud offerings have won federal certification as being secure, allowing the government… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy: Virtually every major country will have an AWS region

Updated below with video of the talk. Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy, in his first public comments since being… Read More

Amazon Web Services and Salesforce expanding in India in response to rising cloud demand

Part of the $3 billion that Amazon earlier this week pledged to invest in India will go toward building an AWS data… Read More

Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services starts certifying partners that help customers move to the cloud

Migrating to the cloud is less of a strain with guidance from trained professionals, and with that in mind, Amazon… Read More

Amazon’s cloud computing cash cow: AWS, now a $10B business, fuels record quarter for company

Amazon is happy about its cloud computing business, and so are investors. The Seattle-based company crushed analyst expectations for its… Read More

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