UK cyber-boss slams China's bug-hoarding laws ASIA IN BRIEF Plus: Japanese scientists ID ancient supernova; AWS dismisses China trouble rumor; and more Security15 Jul 2024 | 1
Google: We're still working to defeat Microsoft's 'anticompetitive' cloud policy Yesterday's settlement between MS and Euro cloud providers shouldn't 'fool' you, says Alphabet arm's cloud boss PaaS + IaaS11 Jul 2024 | 15
Australia to build Top Secret cloud in AWS for military and spooky users Interoperability with US infrastructure a big selling point Public Sector04 Jul 2024 | 19
AWS is pushing ahead with MFA for privileged accounts. What that means for you ... The clock is ticking – why not try a passkey? CSO17 Jun 2024 | 17
Broadcom ends easy elasticity for VMware Cloud on AWS Amazon is not taking this lying down, as shown by aggressive migration promotions PaaS + IaaS10 Jun 2024 | 11
Amazon to add 15 datacenters to atomic-powered campus And with up to 960MW of capacity on the table, that may only be the beginning On-Prem30 May 2024 | 8
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AWS pledges to spend €15.7B expanding Spanish operations Much of the money will go to mountainous Aragón – not mainly in the plain Off-Prem24 May 2024 | 7
UK competition cops say Microsoft's stake in Mistral is not a merger Watchdog drops official probe but IT giant's deal with Inflection AI and Amazon's with Anthropic still in play AI + ML17 May 2024 | 1
AWS to pump billions into sovereign cloud for Germany It'll own the datacenters, but keep data and employees local PaaS + IaaS17 May 2024 | 20
Amazon's latest 'flex' VMs promise savings for your burstiest apps Updated Sustained workloads need not apply PaaS + IaaS16 May 2024 | 3
Global EV sales continue to increase, but Plug-in Hybrid momentum is growing PHEVs make a lot of sense for traditional automakers faced with battery-powered losses Personal Tech15 May 2024 | 107
AWS CEO logs off after three years at the helm Adam Selipsky off on new adventures. What those are, we'll have to wait and see SaaS14 May 2024 | 2
AWS CISO tells The Reg: In the AI gold rush, folks are forgetting application security RSAC 'Everybody's learning as they go. But there's a rush to get these apps out' AI + ML13 May 2024 | 5
From chips to cloud, tech titans continue to splash cash across APAC Intel and pals automate manufacturing in Japan while AWS pledges billions to Singapore PaaS + IaaS09 May 2024 | 1
VMware waves goodbye to AWS middleman as Broadcom takes the reins Updated Customers brace for bumpy ride PaaS + IaaS07 May 2024 | 2
AWS promotes itself as alternative to its own VMware service Why? Maybe because it looks likely VMw Cloud on Amazon is changing PaaS + IaaS03 May 2024 | 6
Cloud Big Three take lion's share as market expands 21% Q1 2024 sees strongest growth since Q3 2022 PaaS + IaaS03 May 2024 |
AWS customer faces staggering charges over S3 bucket misfire Updated Open source tool fingered for 100 million PUT requests and $1,300 in a day Storage01 May 2024 | 66
VMware by Broadcom blinks again – this time easing change for cloud service providers As the rumor mill whispers about a breakup with AWS Virtualization01 May 2024 | 16
AWS hits $100B revenue run rate, expands margins, delivers most of Amazon's profit Growth is rather slower than cloudy rivals, but boss Andy Jassy can explain that Off-Prem01 May 2024 | 3
Elon Musk's latest brainfart is to turn Tesla cars into AWS on wheels There are many reasons why this is likely more trouble than it's worth On-Prem30 Apr 2024 | 159
Amazon to ditch WorkDocs sharing service, support countdown begins Updated Cloud giant directs users to pack their bags for DropBox, gives them a year to get affairs in order Applications26 Apr 2024 | 9
Amazon to blow $11B on cluster of Indiana bit barns Talk about going round the (South) Bend PaaS + IaaS25 Apr 2024 | 4
Snowmobile, Amazon's truck-powered migration service, reaches the end of the road Demand for bulk storage on wheels turned out to be wan Storage17 Apr 2024 | 13
GenAI will be bigger than the cloud or the internet, Amazon CEO hopes And Andy Jassy will happily take your money along the way Off-Prem11 Apr 2024 | 15
AWS must pay $525M to cloud storage patent holder, says jury Updated Computing giant will appeal ruling, which found infringement was not 'willful' Storage11 Apr 2024 | 24
US-EAST-1 region is not the cloudy crock it's made out to be, claims AWS EC2 boss It's the region where stuff gets stressed at scale first, says Dave Brown, as he plots variants of Amazon's Outposts PaaS + IaaS10 Apr 2024 | 4
Irish power crunch could be prompting AWS to ration compute resources Exclusive Users report being pointed to other EU regions if they need more grunt On-Prem09 Apr 2024 | 114
Microsoft hiring Inflection team triggers interest from EU's antitrust chief All sorts of levers being pulled to lure AI developers from here, there, everywhere AI + ML05 Apr 2024 | 4
UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in Exclusive After slew of AWS deals signed under MoUs, CDDO says current approach might weaken its position Public Sector04 Apr 2024 | 99
AWS severs connection with several hundred staff 'Necessary,' 'focusing our efforts,' 'deliver maximum impact' ... sounds just like all the other tech layoffs lately PaaS + IaaS03 Apr 2024 | 13
Stability AI reportedly ran out of cash to pay its bills for rented cloudy GPUs Generative AI darling was on track to pay $99M on compute to generate just $11M in revenues AI + ML03 Apr 2024 | 22
Amazon to lure upstarts with $500K in AWS AI credits each Come on in, drill into Anthropic and Mistral – that's not the sound of a door slamming shut behind you AI + ML02 Apr 2024 | 1
Amazon finishes pumping $4B into AI darling Anthropic Adds $2.75B to the ML sweepstakes ante and is counting on Claude AI + ML27 Mar 2024 | 3
EU antitrust cops probe Microsoft ties between Entra ID and 365 services Exclusive Google claims rival has made an 'art and science' out of licensing SaaS22 Mar 2024 | 29
Linux 6.9 will be the first to top ten million Git objects For now, have Linux 6.8, which Linus Torvalds could find no reason to delay OSes11 Mar 2024 | 28
Amazon bends to Euro watchdogs, waives egress fees for folks ditching AWS Now the pressure is on for Microsoft to stop holding user data hostage PaaS + IaaS05 Mar 2024 | 3
Amazon goes nuclear, acquires Cumulus Data's atomic datacenters for $650M E-commerce giant on the hook for 480MW of power from Susquehanna plant Off-Prem04 Mar 2024 | 13
Companies flush money down the drain with overfed Kubernetes cloud clusters Just 13% of provisioned CPUs, 20% of memory utilized, study finds PaaS + IaaS01 Mar 2024 | 13
Nutanix doesn't expect a rush of VMware refugees – maybe for years Beats guidance as renewals grow and waits for Broadcom and Cisco to bring more bucks Virtualization29 Feb 2024 | 4
Amazon extends the life of its servers to six years, expects $900m benefit in 90 days Cloud optimization efforts ebb, and migrations resume Off-Prem02 Feb 2024 | 16
'Birthplace of Amazon' on the market for $2.28M 'Affordable' for the neighborhood Bootnotes24 Jan 2024 | 21
AWS Marketplace adds sales of third-party services Cloud-ready software and implementation from your preferred consultants, on one bill Channel23 Jan 2024 | 1
Amazon plots massive cloud expansion in Japan with $15B investment Land of the rising profit? PaaS + IaaS21 Jan 2024 |
In just one year, UK.gov's direct spend on AWS rises 76 percent Cloud vendor remains a distance behind leading tech suppliers though Public Sector13 Dec 2023 | 2
AWS S3 is 'pushing to become primary storage for a lot of applications' re:Invent We speak to Andy Warfield, AWS distinguished engineer Storage12 Dec 2023 | 6
AWS accuses Microsoft of clipping customers' cloud freedoms World's biggest off-prem service slinger submits comments to UK cloud inquiry, mostly has Redmond HQ's rival in its sights PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2023 | 8
AWS exec: 'Our understanding of open source has started to change' Interview Apache Foundation president David Nalley on Amazon Linux 2023, Free software, and more PaaS + IaaS04 Dec 2023 | 23
Google submits complaints about Microsoft licensing to UK competition regulator Now Microsoft has regulator breathing down its neck in three regions PaaS + IaaS01 Dec 2023 | 7
AWS rakes in half a billion pounds from UK Home Office Someone has to top up the Bezos rocket fund, like British taxpayers PaaS + IaaS01 Dec 2023 | 40
You're so worried about AWS reliability, the cloud giant now lets you simulate major outages re:Invent Fake it 'til you break it, for a whole availability zone or WAN FAIL Off-Prem01 Dec 2023 | 9
Watchdog claims retaliation from military after questioning cushy federal IT contracts Special report IT-AAC had a hand in scrutinizing JEDI, now faces probe for challenging $300M+ single-source deals Public Sector30 Nov 2023 | 12
The AI everything show continues at AWS: Generate SQL from text, vector search, and more re:Invent Invisible watermarks on AI-generated images? Sure. But major tools in the stack matter most Databases30 Nov 2023 | 6
Now AWS gets a ChatGPT-style Copilot: Amazon Q to be your cloud chat assistant Re:Invent Anthropic CEO also rocks up on stage for reasons Devops28 Nov 2023 | 7
AWS unveils core-packed Graviton4 and beefier Trainium accelerators for AI Re:Invent Also hedging its bets with a healthy dose of Nvidia chips too Systems28 Nov 2023 | 2
AWS previews AppFabric for productivity – pitched as AI-powered glue between apps Re:Invent Park user data in Amazon's servers for ML-generated insights and actions – yea or nay for you? Devops28 Nov 2023 | 1
AWS plays with Fire TV Cube, turns it into a thin client for cloudy desktops re:Invent $195 a pop, delivered, pre-provisioned ready to stream desktops or apps Off-Prem27 Nov 2023 | 28
Sumo Logic wrestles with security breach, pins down customer data Compromised AWS account led to fears that user info could have been exposed to cybercriminals Cyber-crime21 Nov 2023 |
Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites nail online orders from orbit Late-stage capitalism ... in spaaace Networks17 Nov 2023 | 22
AWS staffer shows off the workplace that used to be a prison Panopticon design gains new meaning for the all powerful cloud platform Bootnotes13 Nov 2023 | 15