Tag: Amazon Cloud

October 6, 2021

The US government has been asked to weigh in on a previous infringement case brought by a PersonalWeb Technologies against Amazon and other brands that use its AWS hosting services. The US Supreme Court has sought the federal government’s views […]

June 8, 2021

The original key promise of the cloud was to make it easier and more cost-effective for organizations of any size to consume technology resources. It’s an approach that started with virtual compute services and has evolved into much more, including […]

June 9, 2017

Amazon on Thursday ended its policy of providing free unlimited cloud storage via Amazon Drive, opting instead to give its consumer and business users a smaller amount of free capacity in the Amazon cloud and charging for capacity beyond that. […]

July 29, 2016

Amazon reported another surge in revenue for its cloud business last quarter, though the growth is slowing as the division gets bigger. Amazon Web Services revenue for the second quarter was $2.87 billion, up 58 percent from the same period in […]

May 16, 2016

Amazon Web Services has made its first investment in a submarine cable project, looking to improve capacity on the global network connecting the data centers that host its cloud services. When the Hawaiki Submarine Cable comes online – target live […]

April 26, 2016

Four years ago tensions between OpenStack and Amazon Web Services were at a high. The open source cloud computing platform was being developed as an alternative to AWS’s and members of the community spoke despairingly about the public cloud behemoth. […]

April 19, 2016

Microsoft SharePoint Enterprise became available for the first time as a preconfigured offering that could be self-provisioned in the cloud. Only it wasn’t Microsoft’s cloud. The Amazon Web Services Marketplace is now the only source from which businesses can quickly […]

April 8, 2016

Many people probably don’t know what Lambda is, or why it’s important. But Wood says it could usher in a new era of application development and cloud-based hosting. And perhaps most interestingly, it could be a replacement for one of […]