Articles about AWS – Page 8 of 16

Amazon quiet on big AWS outage, but an explanation could come soon

UPDATE: Amazon has released an explanation of what caused the big outage this week and has started putting safeguards in… Read More

Amazon Web Services outage reveals critical lack of redundancy across the internet

The digital snow day is over, as Amazon Web Services has fixed the issues with its Simple Storage Service, or… Read More

Update: AWS cloud storage back online after outage cripples popular sites

An outage of Amazon Web Services’ Simple Storage Service (S3) impacted sites across the internet Tuesday. Continue reading for our story and… Read More

Report: Amazon plans to bring Alexa and cloud-based deep learning tools to call centers

Amazon is gearing up to disrupt another industry, and this time it’s call centers. Amazon Web Services developing a suite of… Read More

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy says this is the cloud giant’s top priority — by far

With the cloud revolution underway, everyone wants to know what computing will look like — and where the biggest market… Read More

Amazon hires former Sony online chief to lead team working on ‘ambitious new project’ using AWS and Twitch

Amazon has tapped former Sony exec John Smedley to lead a San Diego game studio, which will develop new projects using… Read More

Amazon unveils Chime, looks to reinvent the conference call with new Skype and GoToMeeting competitor

Amazon is looking to transform just about every industry. Now, the Seattle tech juggernaut wants to reinvent how you conduct… Read More

Cloud Report Card: Amazon Web Services is a $12B juggernaut, but Microsoft and Google are gaining

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos promised last year that public cloud titan Amazon Web Services would achieve $10 billion in sales for 2016, reaching that milestone… Read More

Amazon Web Services posts $3.5B in sales, up 47% from last year, reaches $14B annual run rate

Amazon’s cloud computing arm continues to generate billions in revenue and help the tech giant post a profit. Amazon Web Services… Read More

Amazon earnings preview: Will Amazon Web Services again help bolster Amazon’s bottom line?

Amazon Web Services is not only helping Amazon generate billions of dollars in revenue, but also — perhaps more importantly, to… Read More

Google vows to build leading cloud for enterprise Windows, swiping at Microsoft’s core business

Google is going after a core part of Microsoft’s cloud business, aiming to expand Google Cloud Platform’s appeal to big companies that run the… Read More

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella: How Azure will fend off Amazon Web Services in the enterprise

Microsoft believes that its unique combination of cloud offerings will hold off market-leading public-cloud service Amazon Web Services in Microsoft’s… Read More

Microsoft’s commercial cloud run rate tops $14B for first time, driven by Azure and Office 365

Microsoft’s commercial cloud run rate exceeded $14 billion for the first time during the December quarter, driven by Office 365 and Microsoft… Read More

Amazon Web Services and Azure expand IPv6 offerings, to add security and handle more devices

Amazon Web Services has implemented IPv6 support in virtual private clouds running under its basic computing service (Elastic Compute Cloud,… Read More

LendingRobot launches hedge fund that uses blockchain and machine learning — with no human intervention

LendingRobot, an automated online investment-management service that calls itself a “robo-advisor,” is launching a hedge fund that the company says is… Read More

Amazon Web Services’ secret weapon: Its custom-made hardware and network

It’s not unusual for internet and software giants to design and even make their own hardware, to increase efficiency and build a competitive advantage.… Read More

Oracle to open 3 new cloud regions this year, escalating challenge to AWS and Azure

Database giant Oracle today moved to strengthen its position as a full-service cloud provider, using CloudWorld, a one-day conference convening in New York… Read More

Oracle opens second cloud accelerator program, attempting to court startups

Database giant and cloud contender Oracle has opened a cloud accelerator program in Tel Aviv, with the aim of helping… Read More

Cloud wars: Amazon Web Services expands pricing API in new effort to show cost savings

The ability to choose from a wide range of computing and storage services is one of cloud computing’s big draws,… Read More

The Cloud in 2017: Seven key trends, from AWS and Azure to voice services and machine learning

Here’s a no-brainer: 2017 will be a big year for the cloud. Cloud computing is an innovation rivaling the advent of… Read More

Podcast

Microsoft in 2016: Surging stock, new devices and a huge new AI team

Satya Nadella’s third year as CEO of Microsoft turned out to be a pretty good one. Microsoft closed the year… Read More

‘OpenStack is not going to be an Amazon killer’: Open-source cloud tech faces U.S. market realities

The year 2016 has been huge for the big public-cloud providers, with Amazon Web Services on track to a $12-billion… Read More

2016’s parting gift is an extra second of time — and Amazon has a last-minute cloud fix

Look, we all know it’s been a tough year. A divisive presidential campaign; celebrity deaths including David Bowie, Prince and Leonard… Read More

Oracle reports increased revenue from some cloud offerings, but it’s hardly a threat to Amazon

Database stalwart Oracle Corp., which would very much like to be a major player in the public-cloud market, reported sharply… Read More

Another one bites the dust: Cisco discontinues its $1B cloud initiative as AWS, Azure and others expand

Cisco will abandon its InterCloud cloud-computing offering on March 31 and will move any InterCloud workloads to other, unnamed cloud… Read More

Amazon Web Services expands yet again, this time in London, as cloud movement thrives

Amazon Web Services has opened a London region, offering UK-based companies and their end-users lower latency than they may have… Read More

Amazon Web Services expands to offer cloud IT services to big companies

Amazon Web Services continues to chew its way upward through the “stack” of computing services that organizations require, moving from… Read More

Starbucks hires Amazon Web Services and Microsoft vet to build cloud-based ‘digital flywheel’

Tal Saraf, a veteran of Cisco, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, has joined Starbucks as its senior vice president of engineering… Read More

Why the data center isn’t dead yet: Explaining the rise of the ‘pragmatic hybrid cloud’

Amazon Web Services’ recent re:Invent conference in Las Vegas highlighted the excitement and momentum that public-cloud computing is generating these… Read More

Guest post: The biggest trends at the Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference

The momentum continues to build and scale in leaps and bounds. That was the overwhelming observation and feeling at the… Read More