Cloud Tech – Page 3 of 55

Nov 22, 2023, 11:14 AM

Shift AI Podcast: Laying the bedrock for generative AI at Amazon with AWS VP Vasi Philomin

“AI has massive benefits for automating and streamlining more tedious, redundant, and time consuming tasks. If we can offload these… Read More

Nov 15, 2023, 8:00 AM

Microsoft unveils custom AI chip, with help from OpenAI, playing catch-up with Amazon

Microsoft publicly confirmed its long-rumored plan to introduce its own datacenter processors, including one optimized for artificial intelligence and refined… Read More

Nov 6, 2023, 5:15 AM

Internal memo: Amazon Web Services plans reorg of Sales, Marketing, and Global Services team

Amazon Web Services will reorganize its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) group to “lay the foundation for accelerated customer… Read More

Oct 30, 2023, 5:23 AM

AI in the cloud: Microsoft boosts share; Amazon predicts ‘tens of billions’ in new revenue

AI is starting to generate real money for the big cloud providers. Global spending on cloud infrastructure services topped $68… Read More

Oct 17, 2023, 12:34 PM

UK regulator puts Amazon and Microsoft on notice with details of cloud investigation

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) outlined the scope of its planned investigation into major public cloud platforms, singling… Read More

Oct 3, 2023, 12:46 PM

Microsoft and Oracle, frenemies at last: What others can learn from their unlikely partnership

“All partnerships are tactical. There is no such thing as a strategic partnership.” That’s one of the lessons that business… Read More

Oct 3, 2023, 5:00 AM

Cloud startup Pulumi raises $41M from Madrona, NEA to grow ‘infrastructure as code’ platform

Seattle startup Pulumi landed $41 million as it looks to boost its leadership position in the infrastructure as code market… Read More

Sep 25, 2023, 4:17 AM

Amazon pours up to $4B into AI startup Anthropic, escalating rivalry with Microsoft and Google

Amazon will invest up to $4 billion and take a minority stake in Anthropic, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company… Read More

Aug 28, 2023, 9:45 AM

Amazon Web Services acquires Fig, a YC grad that boosts the command line for devs

Amazon Web Services has acquired Fig, a small San Francisco-based startup that helps developers be more efficient and collaborative while… Read More

Aug 1, 2023, 12:02 PM

Amazon’s cloud business and AI initiatives in the spotlight in advance of earnings report

Amazon’s cloud revenue growth rate and its artificial intelligence initiatives will be closely scrutinized when the company reports second-quarter earnings… Read More

Jul 25, 2023, 3:30 PM

Google Cloud posts second straight profitable quarter on 28% revenue growth

Google Cloud boosted its operating profits to $395 million for the second quarter, a improvement of close to $1 billion… Read More

Jul 14, 2023, 1:37 PM

Chinese hacking group exploited multiple Microsoft flaws to access U.S. government email accounts

Microsoft is providing new details about the techniques used by a Chinese hacking group to infiltrate the email accounts of… Read More

Jul 12, 2023, 7:38 AM

Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google Cloud

Chris Vonderhaar, a longtime Amazon Web Services executive who left the company this spring, has joined AWS rival Google Cloud.… Read More

Jun 22, 2023, 10:49 AM

Amazon looks to boost generative AI projects with new $100M cloud initiative

Amazon Web Services says it will invest $100 million in a new initiative to connect its machine learning and artificial… Read More

May 30, 2023, 4:49 PM

Amazon confirms abrupt departure of AWS data center chief Chris Vonderhaar

The Amazon Web Services executive who oversaw the cloud giant’s massive network of data centers is suddenly gone, without explanation.… Read More

Jan 25, 2023, 9:09 AM

What Microsoft’s numbers say about the state of the tech economy

Things really began to change in December. That’s when Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform started to lose some of its momentum,… Read More

Jan 23, 2023, 8:42 AM

Microsoft’s ‘multibillion dollar’ OpenAI investment comes with new level of secrecy

Microsoft is making a big new investment in OpenAI, the artificial intelligence powerhouse behind ChatGPT, extending a partnership that has… Read More

Jan 17, 2023, 10:25 AM

ChatGPT coming to Azure: New integration shows how Microsoft will leverage OpenAI partnership

Having trouble reliably accessing OpenAI’s ChatGPT? Microsoft has a solution. The tech giant says it will soon make the generative… Read More

Dec 7, 2022, 2:48 PM

Pentagon splits giant cloud contract among Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle

Correction: This story previously misstated the total value of the contracts. The U.S. Department of Defense awarded cloud contracts with… Read More

Nov 29, 2022, 1:41 PM

Amazon Web Services pitches customers on cloud savings, makes bigger push into applications

Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky made his pitch to businesses to double down on the company’s cloud technologies, and… Read More

Nov 28, 2022, 10:45 AM

What to expect at re:Invent: Amazon Web Services navigates uncertain economic times

Amazon Web Services will face a new challenge at its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week: keeping software… Read More

Oct 28, 2022, 12:40 PM

How the economy is hitting the Amazon and Microsoft clouds, and what they’re doing about it

After soaring during the pandemic, the cloud is getting dragged down by the economy, and both of the Seattle region’s… Read More

Jul 28, 2022, 10:57 AM

Full text: Microsoft’s multi-cloud vision would keep Amazon from running away with federal deals

A draft document circulated by Microsoft calls for the use of multiple cloud vendors as “the de facto standard for… Read More

Jul 7, 2022, 4:28 PM

M1 Macs in the cloud: Amazon Web Services releases upgraded Mac EC2 instances

Amazon Web Services is doubling down on the latest Apple technologies with the general availability of its EC2 M1 Mac… Read More

May 31, 2022, 9:33 AM

Microsoft ‘Entra’ launch renews push for decentralized ID and cross-cloud permissions

Microsoft is rebranding its identity and access products under the name “Entra,” and rolling out a decentralized system to verify… Read More

May 18, 2022, 10:49 AM

Microsoft changes cloud practices in Europe, acknowledges missteps in rivalry with Amazon

Microsoft responded to criticism of its cloud licensing policies in Europe with a series of promises to change its licensing… Read More

Apr 25, 2022, 8:32 AM

Microsoft earnings preview: Wall Street expects 18% revenue growth on continued cloud strength

Streaming video subscriptions might be more disposable than imagined, but the juggernaut of cloud infrastructure and enterprise services is another… Read More

Apr 6, 2022, 4:00 AM

Amazon, Google or Microsoft? Boeing chooses all of the above for cloud computing services

The billion-dollar competition to provide Boeing with cloud computing services is finished, and the winner is … a three-way split.… Read More

Mar 8, 2022, 1:34 PM

Amazon halts AWS cloud signups in Russia and Belarus; existing customers not impacted

Amazon has stopped taking on new cloud customers in Russia and Belarus, escalating its response to the invasion of Ukraine,… Read More

Mar 5, 2022, 8:33 AM

Analyst: Only a matter of time before U.S. cloud companies shut off services in Russia

A flurry of tech companies — including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google — are halting sales of services and products in… Read More