Tag: Amazon

November 22, 2022

Using feature flags and other runtime configuration types is a fast-evolving technology segment. Adjusting your software behavior with a minor configuration update instead of deploying code lets teams move faster and more safely. Furthermore, releasing a feature using a feature […]

November 2, 2022

AMG (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, the leading cloud providers) reported their quarterly results last week, with many decrying the results and predicting that cloud computing has downshifted permanently to a lower growth rate. AWS revenues, for example, came in at […]

October 28, 2022

Despite the click-click of belt tightening and the snip-snip of budget trimming, enterprise cloud spend continues to rise. It’s just not growing at the neck-breaking pace of recent years. In part, that dynamic accounts for Amazon’s underperformance during the three-month […]

October 12, 2022

Amazon has announced three new initiatives as part of its effort to provide 29 million people with cloud-computing skills by 2025: IT Skills 4U, the AWS re/Start Associate initiative, and the opening of an AWS Skills Center in Arlington, Virginia. […]

September 23, 2022

Jamf has teamed up with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to introduce new tools that let IT admins using Jamf Pro enroll virtual EC2 Macs when they are provisioned via the AWS portal. It means even virtual Macs can have all […]

July 29, 2022

Amazon, which posted a net loss of $2 billion, sees potential rough patches in the economy as a growth opportunity for AWS, which had $19.7 billion in net sales in Q2, up 33% year-over-year. After expenses, its operating income reached […]

July 27, 2022

Google’s standing in the cloud market is still a work in progress, despite recent revenue and client wins. In the global IaaS public cloud market, Google Cloud ranked third among U.S.-based cloud providers and fourth globally based on 2021 market […]

July 13, 2022

Delta Airlines has signed a multi-year with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that will see the carrier draw on the public cloud giant’s technologies to revamp the end-to-end travel experience for its passengers. In line with this, Delta said it will […]

July 8, 2022

Amazon Web Sevices’s (AWS) latest addition to its Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud(opens in new tab) (EC2) service will now let users rent and run an M1 Mac Mini in the cloud. First rolled out in 2006, EC2 allows users to […]

June 22, 2022

The more workloads that you migrate to the cloud, the more difficult it becomes to predict monthly cloud costs. Cloud services vendors such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft can help organizations avoid capital costs for new hardware, but that doesn’t […]

May 11, 2022

With more enterprises shifting their data from legacy to open-source databases in the cloud, Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is offering a PostgreSQL-compatible, fully managed database-as-a-service (DBaaS), dubbed AlloyDB, now in public preview and intended to take on the likes of […]

May 2, 2022

The explosion of non-human identities in public cloud deployments has decision makers turning to new identity and access management tools to keep their environments secure, according to a new study performed by Forrester Consulting for Sonrai Security and Amazon Web […]

April 29, 2022

Amazon’s fast-growing cloud division couldn’t help its parent company avoid posting its first quarterly loss since 2015. Amazon Web Services saw revenue grow by 37% to $18.4 billion for the first quarter of 2022. That amounted to an operating profit […]

March 30, 2022

Although a bit later than initially expected, the US Department of Defense (DOD) has announced that it plans to award up to $9bn in cloud infrastructure contracts in December of this year. Following the controversy surrounding its now canceled Joint […]

February 18, 2022

Amazon is renaming its distributed search and analytics offering Elasticsearch following the resolution of a trademark infringement lawsuit brought against the tech giant by open source search firm Elastic in 2019. Elastic has a product within its portfolio called Elasticsearch, […]

February 4, 2022

Amazon Web Services (AWS) chalked up the biggest year-on-year revenue gain in its history during the fourth quarter of 2021, with the Covid-19 pandemic continuing to fuel demand for its public cloud offerings. The final quarter of 2021 saw Amazon.com’s […]

January 10, 2022

The cloud is no longer some distant, separate place. Yes, Amazon, Microsoft, and Google maintain unimaginably vast expanses of servers in cloud data centers around the world – as do thousands of SaaS providers. But those clouds and the services […]

January 6, 2022

Amazon.com has signed a deal with Maserati’s parent company, Stellantis, that will pave the way for the online retail giant to equip its delivery drivers with electric vehicles. The deal will see Amazon.com build on its existing relationship with Stellantis, […]

December 22, 2021

December has been a rough month for Amazon—at least for Amazon Web Services. The massively popular cloud computing platform suffered its third outage of the month Wednesday, affecting Slack, the Epic Games Store, and several other services. The AWS Service […]

December 13, 2021

Amazon Web Services (AWS) rarely goes down unexpectedly, but you can expect a detailed explainer when a major outage does happen. The latest of AWS’s major outages occurred at 7:30AM PST on Tuesday, December 7, lasted five hours and affected […]