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Former Amazon Web Services employees merge cloud consulting firms

Two former Amazon.com employees are merging their cloud computing startups, hoping to grab a bigger pool of clients that need… Read More

Amazon’s cloud computing unit is worth up to $50B, analyst says

Starting this year Amazon shareholders will know exactly how much revenue the company generates from its cloud computing business when it starts to… Read More

Amazon Web Services dominates cloud survey, but Microsoft Azure gains traction

Amazon Web Services continues to dominate cloud computing, with 57 percent of technical professionals saying in a new survey that… Read More

Amazon will break out Amazon Web Services financials in 2015; AWS usage up 90% in one year

Amazon investors and the public will soon have a better idea of how much revenue the company generates from its cloud… Read More

Microsoft’s commercial cloud business grows 114%

In his public appearances discussing Microsoft’s strategy, CEO Satya Nadella has made it clear that he believes the company has… Read More

Amazon to power its datacenters with new wind farm next year

Amazon Web Services will soon use wind power to generate electricity for its cloud datacenters. The Seattle giant today announced that it is… Read More

Amazon Web Services vet scores $2.8M from Andreessen Horowitz and others for hot Seattle startup Distelli

Rahul Singh spent eight years at Amazon working on key platform technologies that helped power Amazon Web Services through its… Read More

Google Domains: Useful for some small business owners, but useless in many cases

As an active owner of a considerable number of domain names, I was excited to learn that both Google and… Read More

Learning pays: Amazon offers $1K in AWS credit for people who complete online course

Amazon has teamed up with online course provider EdX to offer $1,000 in Amazon Web Services credit to people who… Read More

Tech Moves: Yammer founder lands at Zenefits, Concur CFO joins Limeade board

—Yammer co-founder David Sacks has been named the Chief Operating Officer at Zenefits. As COO, all operations, finance and product teams… Read More

Update: Amazon’s CloudFront content delivery network recovers from two-hour outage

It’s the Murphy’s Law corollary for cloud computing: anything that can go wrong will go wrong on the eve of… Read More

Amazon will run all its data centers on renewable energy…eventually

Environmentally-conscious cloud users got good news today: Amazon has pledged to get all of its data centers running entirely on… Read More

Handling events in the cloud? Amazon’s new Lambda service looks to make it easy

As it becomes possible for applications to take in even more massive amounts of data, there’s a growing need for… Read More

AWS teams with Intel to create its highest-performance cloud compute instance ever

Amazon announced today that it has teamed with Intel to create a new class of Elastic Compute Cloud instances built… Read More

News Brief

IMS Health turns to Amazon for hosting its cloud-based applications

IMS Health has turned to Amazon to host all of its software-as-a-service applications, in a move that should help the… Read More

Amazon launches EC2 Container Service to help developers manage Dockerized apps

Developers working with containerized apps on Amazon Web Services have a new tool to help them manage their workloads. Today,… Read More

Amazon takes aim at Microsoft’s SQL Server with Aurora database service

In its continuing quest for cloud dominance, Amazon has taken aim at the major players in the relational database space… Read More

Amazon Web Services reaches 1M business and government customers, tops 40% revenue growth

Amazon Web Services chief Andy Jassy will take the stage shortly in Las Vegas for the company’s annual re:Invent conference,… Read More

Amazon hiring former CIOs to help sell more enterprise cloud computing products

Amazon is courting former chief information officers in an effort to bring in more enterprise cloud computing business. The Wall Street… Read More

AWS migration service 2nd Watch lands $10 million, names new CEO

2nd Watch, which helps companies move applications onto Amazon Web Services, has raised $10 million in fresh funding from Top… Read More

Time for another cloud pricing war: Google announces price cuts for Compute Engine

Google kicked off what’s sure to be another pricing war in the public cloud services arena today by dropping the… Read More

Amazon jumps into domain registration business

Companies looking to register a new domain name have another provider to choose from: Amazon Web Services. The company launched… Read More

Amazon takes aim at Microsoft Azure with new Mobile Services push

Amazon wants make it easier for mobile app developers to integrate cloud services into their apps. The company today unveiled a quartet of… Read More

Amazon CTO: Cloud isn’t a winner-take-all market

SAN FRANCISCO–The way Amazon CTO Werner Vogels sees it, there isn’t going to be one winner in the cloud space as Microsoft,… Read More

Feds say Amazon’s cloud can now host key Obamacare data

Insurers that need to share data with the federal government as a part of the Affordable Care Act — better… Read More

Expanded SAP deal gives Microsoft new ammunition against Amazon and Google

An expanded partnership between Microsoft and enterprise software giant SAP, announced this morning, has the potential to boost Windows Phone and help the… Read More

Cloud wars, episode 3: Microsoft cuts Azure prices following price drops from Amazon, Google

It seems like Microsoft is keeping up with its promise to cut prices for its cloud services in lockstep with… Read More

Protecting the cloud: Amazon gains key certification from Department of Defense

Amazon announced today that Amazon Web Services has received a provisional certification from the Department of Defense under the department’s… Read More

Google Cloud Platform roadshow aims to lure companies from Azure, AWS

Google’s cloud services team is going on an international tour in a bid to bring companies onto its cloud services… Read More

Security researchers: Amazon hosts nearly half of the top 10 malware distributors

Thousands upon thousands of people use Amazon Web Services to host their websites — including some of the most tenacious… Read More