Tag: Amazon

January 29, 2024

Amid the war for global dominance in the AI era, the US administration is considering making it mandatory for prominent global cloud services providers — such as Amazon, Google, and Microsoft — to reveal details about the customers developing AI […]

November 13, 2023

Bringing its security and data analysis capabilities to a new potential audience, data security and multicloud data management provider Cohesity is now taking signups for access to its Turing generative AI features via Amazon’s Bedrock front-end for cloud-based AI. Cohesity […]

November 7, 2023

Cloud environments offer businesses an array of advantages, from scalability to flexibility. Yet, as many organizations have discovered, these benefits don’t automatically equate to reduced costs. Navigating the intricacies of cloud billing can be challenging, leading to unexpected expenses. This […]

October 27, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) reported a 12% year-on-year uptick in its revenue growth during the third quarter of 2023, with the firm reporting a bounceback in the number of enterprises moving new workloads to its public cloud. The company posted […]

October 5, 2023

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is set to launch an investigation into the country’s cloud computing market, after a new report from the communications regulator uncovered a number of market features that it said could limit competition among […]

August 31, 2023

The Scottish Government Digital Directorate is launching its Cloud Platform Service (CPS), which aims to make it easier for the public sector to procure Amazon and Microsoft public cloud services. Details about the CPS began emerging late last year with […]

August 29, 2023

ChatGPT’s generative AI domination since its release in late November has led many in the tech industry to predict Microsoft’s current stranglehold on the technology will continue well into the future – and that Microsoft will inevitably be the leader […]

August 4, 2023

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has credited a shift in its customers’ cloud-spending priorities as playing a pivotal role in helping the e-commerce giant post a better than expected set of second quarter results. The results period, which covers the three […]

July 6, 2023

The US is preparing to curtail Chinese companies’ access to cloud-computing services including those provided by Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp., the Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the situation. Washington is considering requiring cloud providers to seek […]

June 22, 2023

Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud unit is building a program to help customers develop and deploy new kinds of artificial intelligence products as the biggest seller of cloud services tries to match Microsoft and Google in the market for so-called generative AI. […]

June 15, 2023

Cloud giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) thinks it has the answer to alert fatigue in the form of automated actions. The new capability, part of AWS Security Hub, aims to prevent potentially dangerous human errors from occurring during the manual […]

June 14, 2023

Amazon Web Services, the tech behemoth’s cloud computing division, experienced a wide-reaching outage Tuesday. The issues left engineers unable to access certain tools and affected businesses, although the immediate scale was not clear. The Boston Globe and the New York […]

April 28, 2023

The annual revenue growth rate for Amazon’s cloud arm is continuing to slow, as enterprises look for ways to optimise the costs involved in running their IT estates off-premise, as evidenced by the e-commerce giant’s first-quarter results for 2023. The […]

April 25, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) GuardDuty, the company’s threat detection service in the cloud(opens in new tab), is getting three new features that should further strengthen customer security. In a press release, the cloud giant said that EKS Runtime Monitoring, GuardDuty […]

April 14, 2023

Amazon.com Inc. is joining Microsoft Corp. and Google in the generative artificial intelligence race, announcing technology aimed at its cloud customers as well as a marketplace for AI tools from other companies. The e-commerce giant’s Amazon Web Services unit on […]

April 11, 2023

Credit reporting bureau Experian is undergoing a multi-year digital transformation project that has seen it name Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred cloud provider partner. The project will see Experian take a cloud-first approach to modernising its IT infrastructure […]

April 6, 2023

Amazon.com Inc. and Microsoft Corp.’s cloud services could face a full-blown antitrust probe in the UK after the country’s digital regulator said the firms may be abusing their market power to thwart fair competition. Ofcom said Wednesday it had found […]

March 20, 2023

Amazon will fire about 9,000 more workers from several business units, including AWS, in the coming weeks, according to a statement released today by company CEO Andy Jassy. The announcement comes two months after Amazon unveiled plans to lay off […]

March 6, 2023

An organization takes a multicloud approach when it uses cloud services from more than one provider. That might seem obvious from the name—it’s multiple clouds, after all—but the reasons for choosing a multicloud approach can be as varied as the […]

December 1, 2022

Organizations have many reasons to move to the cloud — efficiency, cost control, nimbleness. While security may not top the list, or determine cloud provider selection, it’s an attribute that Amazon Web Services says helps win over prospective customers. The […]