For the first time in Amazon’s history, the company’s first-party online retail sales represented less than half of its overall net sales last quarter, even as both measures continued to… Read More
As bigger and bigger businesses take the plunge into cloud computing, Amazon Web Services is turning into a pretty big business in its own right. Revenue from the cloud market… Read More
As it scaled its way to unicorn status and beyond over the last few years, Pinterest was more focused on adding features to its image-sharing social media site and ensuring… Read More
Apple’s use of Amazon Web Services has increased over the past few years and is now projected to hit $360 million this year, according to a report. CNBC reported Monday… Read More
Is the final frontier the next frontier for cloud computing? One of the presentations planned for Amazon’s re:MARS conference in June suggests that Lockheed Martin is putting serious thought into… Read More
Amazon Web Services plans to launch a certification program Tuesday that will give developers building so-called “skills” for its Echo digital assistants a way to verify their abilities. The AWS… Read More
The U.S. Department of Defense narrowed down the list of contenders for its ten-year $10 billion cloud contract to the two companies, and their names will not surprise you. Either… Read More
Google plans to launch one of its first vertical-market cloud services packages introduced under new CEO Thomas Kurian Wednesday at Google Cloud Next 2019 with its top cloud rival squarely… Read More
More than 229 megawatts of clean power will be added to Amazon Web Services’ data centers by the end of 2021 through three new wind farm deals announced Monday by… Read More
A group of artificial intelligence researchers — including this year’s winner of the Turing Award — issued a joint statement Wednesday calling on Amazon Web Services to stop all sales… Read More
Customers of Amazon Web Services looking for easier ways to get their deep-learning models into production will be able to take advantage of a new service based around Docker containers.… Read More
Back in 2017, as Pinterest’s spending with Amazon Web Services skyrocketed thanks to user growth, the company cut a deal with AWS that traded pricing concessions with a commitment to… Read More
Amazon Web Services recently changed a policy that required security researchers to get permission before testing applications running on some of its most important services for security flaws, allowing customers… Read More
Those closely watching the battle for a ten-year $10-billion cloud computing contract on offer from the Department of Defense were expecting a decision this spring, and that now looks like… Read More
The long wait for a viable Arm server processor finally ended in 2018. The chip design company is hoping 2019 is the year it takes off. Arm plans to unveil… Read More
Imagine Lakers legend Kobe Bryant selling season tickets for the Los Angeles Clippers. That’s a little bit like what happened this morning in Los Angeles, after Amazon Web Services announced… Read More
Here’s a complexifier for you: the parent company of the National Enquirer, under fire from Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos after it mounted an extortion campaign against him linked… Read More
Revenue from Amazon Web Services’ market-leading cloud business crossed $7 billion for the first time during the last quarter of the year, and that business continues to grow at a… Read More
Another day, another case of the most-valuable U.S. company reporting its latest financial results. Amazon again claimed the title this morning, following an underwhelming quarterly showing from previous No. 1… Read More
Amazon Web Services has decided to release the code behind one of its key machine-learning services as an open-source project, as it continues to push back against critics who find… Read More
One of the hardest parts of running modern enterprise technology infrastructure is keeping track of everything that is going on, from networking performance to security threats. A new cloud service… Read More
The promise of so-called “low code/no code” software-development tools is to enable anyone to create business applications around their custom needs. It sounds like Amazon Web Services is getting ready… Read More
It has been an acquisitive start to the year for Amazon Web Services, which has reached an agreement to purchase Vancouver’s TSO Logic, according to a notice posted on TSO… Read More
Cloud computing was invented by American tech companies. By the end of the next decade, it might be the domain of Chinese tech companies. Like many other tech revolutions kicked… Read More
Amazon Web Services customers might find some new disaster-recovery services in their account dashboards later this year now that the company has confirmed its acquisition of CloudEndure. An AWS representative… Read More
The latest managed database to emerge from Amazon Web Services is based around MongoDB, setting up a new confrontation between the cloud giant and the company behind that open-source project.… Read More
Amazon has reportedly acquired one of the disaster-recovery service providers within the Amazon Web Services Marketplace, purchasing CloudEndure for around $250 million. Picking up on reports out of CloudEndure’s home… Read More
At some point, it starts to get a little sad. Oracle co-founder and chief technology officer Larry Ellison uncorked another barb at Amazon Web Services Monday following the release of… Read More
As the Department of Defense meanders along the path to awarding its ten-year $10 billion cloud computing contract next year, it will get some help defending its process from the… Read More
In what it is calling an experiment, Amazon Web Services shared its near-term road map for features and services built around containers Tuesday, a surprising move from a company that… Read More