Tag: Amazon

November 6, 2020

Amazon’s cloud business, Amazon Web Services, has announced plans to build a second AWS region in India and will reportedly spend $2.8bn on building out the infrastructure. The new region will be located in the state of Telangana in the […]

October 30, 2020

The cloud infrastructure market kept growing at a brisk pace last quarter, as the pandemic continued to push more companies to the cloud with offices shut down in much of the world. This week the big three — Amazon, Microsoft […]

October 12, 2020

These days when you found a startup, you don’t go out and buy a rack of servers. And you don’t build an in-house datacenter team. Instead, you farm out your infrastructure needs to the major cloud platforms, namely Amazon AWS, […]

July 29, 2020

Organisations continue to leave assets deployed in the public cloud with services such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft routinely exposed and unprotected, with cloud estates now frequently breached through weak links such as neglected and unpatched internet-facing workloads, authentication issues […]

July 20, 2020

Salesforce on Monday announced the general availability of Service Cloud Voice. The company is also expanding its partnership with AWS to offer customers pre-integrated Amazon Connect inside of Service Cloud. First announced at Dreamforce 2019, Service Cloud Voice aims to […]

May 21, 2020

From the time the coronavirus forced the global community to stay at home, a whopping 16 million people have newly subscribed to Netflix, which is more than double the number the streaming giant had forecasted. Amazon had to hire 100,000 […]

April 1, 2020

Amazon’s cloud services business AWS has announced that security tool Amazon Detective, which uses machine learning to help visualize anomalies in customers’ resources, is now generally available. Launched as a preview at last year’s re:Invent event, the feature is likely […]

February 18, 2020

Like many platform operators, Amazon has a love-hate relationship with those hosted on its platform. This is particularly true for open-source software creators, who see their products on offer on Amazon’s cloud on terms they are not happy with. It’s […]

February 3, 2020

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Oracle Corp (ORCL.N) said on Monday it had added new cloud computing data centers in five countries and aims to have them in 36 locations by the end of 2020, as it races with Amazon.com (AMZN.O) […]

December 16, 2019

AWS Security Hub now integrates with Amazon Detective (preview). Amazon Detective makes it easy to analyze, investigate, and quickly identify the root cause of security findings or suspicious activities. Amazon Detective automatically collects log data from your AWS resources and […]

December 6, 2019

Data stored in the cloud by a Sprint contractor, containing hundreds of thousands of phone bills of US citizens, was left exposed and potentially viewable by anyone for an undetermined period of time, it has emerged. As TechCrunch reports, the […]

December 6, 2019

Amazon is reportedly being looked at in the US regarding potentially anticompetitive policies when it comes to the cloud computing arena. According to a report from Bloomberg, Federal Trade Commission investigators have widened their scope beyond Amazon’s retail operations to […]

November 19, 2019

Salesforce and AWS announced an expansion of their on-going partnership that actually goes back to a $400 million 2016 infrastructure services agreement, and expanded last year to include data integration between the two companies. This year, Salesforce announced it will […]

October 25, 2019

Amazon Web Services is ramping its sales and marketing investments amid signs that the battle with Microsoft Azure is accelerating. The big question is whether the laws of large numbers is catching up to both cloud titans in terms of […]

September 4, 2019

Network segmentation is a concept that dates back to the start of enterprise IT systems. The simplest demonstration of this is separating application and infrastructure components with a firewall. This concept is now a routine part of building data centers […]

July 29, 2019

The thirst for infrastructure as a service (IaaS) services continues to grow, but the industry has become dominated by major providers and this may hamper competition in the future. According to Gartner, the IaaS market grew by 31.3 percent in […]

July 19, 2019

President Trump on Thursday said he would direct aides to investigate a pending military contract widely expected to be awarded to Amazon, saying he had heard multiple complaints about an allegedly unfair bidding process. His involvement would be an unusual […]

May 29, 2019

At present, North America is further ahead in terms of UCC than both the European and Asian markets. This doesn’t mean that services are less readily available in these regions, or that there’s less innovation: it just signifies the maturity […]

May 20, 2019

There is one very significant, very often overlooked, difference between today’s cloud services market and yesterday’s PC software market: Software depended on a sales channel, comprised of independent organizations that ensured the availability of software packages through resellers. With the […]

May 15, 2019

China Telecom recently experienced a significant outage that lasted nearly eight hours and affected many Western sites and services such as Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Slack, SAP and others. The network monitoring company ThousandEyes first discovered the outage when its global […]