Tag: AWS

December 7, 2023

The Home Office’s mega £450m public cloud hosting contract with Amazon Web Services (AWS) is concerning public sector market watchers as more details emerge about the contract’s content and how it was arranged. The three-year contract commenced on Friday 1 […]

December 7, 2023

One big advantage of developing cloud native applications is that you can often leave all the tedious infrastructure work to someone else. Why build and manage a server when all you need is a simple function or a basic service? […]

November 30, 2023

Cloud expertise continues to be in high demand and attract the highest compensation. Networking and security credentials are also financially fruitful, according to Skillsoft’s ranking of the 20 top-paying IT certifications going into 2024. At number one on this year’s […]

November 30, 2023

While global cloud spending continues to rise, AWS and its fellow hyperscalers have been trying to keep customers happy by helping them control cost. More compute for less money, a central tenet of cloud, has been harder to achieve than […]

November 30, 2023

Amazon Web Services (AWS) has made its AWS SDK for Rust generally available, for developing and deploying applications on the AWS cloud using the Rust programming language. Announced November 28, the AWS SDK for Rust simplifies the use of AWS […]

November 28, 2023

As part of its ongoing efforts to help its enterprise customers rein in cloud costs, AWS on Monday announced several new updates at its re:Invent 2023 conference. The new updates include a new AWS Billing and Cost Management feature, dubbed […]

November 28, 2023

Look, it’s not you, it’s me. And right now, you need to give me some space. No, not the space in your data center, I’m not quite ready to commit on a deeper level. I need my own space, on […]

November 27, 2023

Across industries, businesses are laying out plans to train employees to use generative AI and AI tools effectively. Mercedes-Benz intends to invest more than $2.2 billion by 2030 to train employees in AI and grow data skills. McKinsey and PwC […]

November 22, 2023

Small- and medium-size businesses are adopting cloud, seeking efficiency gains, customer experience enhancements and improved remote work capabilities. Many SMBs, however, are failing to adequately address cyber risks, according to an AWS survey of 800 C-suite executives. More than one-third […]

November 15, 2023

Cloud file storage is a method of storing data in the cloud rather than on local servers or personal computers. This form of storage offers numerous advantages over traditional forms of data storage. It provides businesses with the ability to […]

November 2, 2023

I spoke with Ben Schreiner, AWS Head of Business Innovation for the SMB sector, about the unique challenges that SMBs face with maximizing their data analytics practices; he also provides advice on how to navigate these challenges. As small and […]

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 27, 2023

Large revenue gains translate to incrementally smaller slices of the total as markets mature and the overall size of the pie grows. But generative AI may rewrite the equation, as customers turn to hyperscaler marketplaces to access the technology. “As […]

October 25, 2023

What are the best strategies for growing an enterprise cloud and AI deployment? To gain insight into this complex question, I spoke with Chris Niederman, Managing Director, Global Systems Integrators at Amazon Web Services; and Chris Wegmann, Global Technology Lead […]

October 18, 2023

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provided some further details on the initial scope of its anti-trust investigation into the UK cloud services market, in the wake of Ofcom’s concerns about the stronghold Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft […]

October 12, 2023

In pay-as-you-go cloud ecosystems, decisions about how and where to house vast stores of rapidly expanding data sets can have an outsized impact on IT’s bottom line. The emergence of data-hungry LLM technologies has only raised the stakes, as organizations […]

October 10, 2023

In an effort to reduce the scarcity of trained cloud developers, AWS is releasing a new virtual program, dubbed Cloud Institute. AWS Cloud Institute, which is a one-year program with 12 different courses spread across four quarters, has been designed […]

October 10, 2023

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks may be one of the least sophisticated types of cyberattacks but they can do real damage. Now Google and other top cloud companies are reporting new records for the largest DDoS attacks ever. The […]

October 6, 2023

Ofcom’s year-long probe into the inner workings of the UK public cloud infrastructure market has concluded with an instruction from the communications regulator for the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to investigate the sector further. Ofcom’s work uncovered three types […]

September 27, 2023

Chatbots, administrative assistants and customer-facing automation are three of generative AI’s more immediate applications. Driving cloud business expansion is another clear consequence of the technology and its enterprise adoption. All of the major cloud providers, including Microsoft, AWS and Google […]