Linux 6.9 will be the first to top ten million Git objects For now, have Linux 6.8, which Linus Torvalds could find no reason to delay OSes11 Mar 2024 | 28
Amazon bends to Euro watchdogs, waives egress fees for folks ditching AWS Now the pressure is on for Microsoft to stop holding user data hostage PaaS + IaaS05 Mar 2024 | 3
Amazon goes nuclear, acquires Cumulus Data's atomic datacenters for $650M E-commerce giant on the hook for 480MW of power from Susquehanna plant Off-Prem04 Mar 2024 | 13
Companies flush money down the drain with overfed Kubernetes cloud clusters Just 13% of provisioned CPUs, 20% of memory utilized, study finds PaaS + IaaS01 Mar 2024 | 13
Nutanix doesn't expect a rush of VMware refugees – maybe for years Beats guidance as renewals grow and waits for Broadcom and Cisco to bring more bucks Virtualization29 Feb 2024 | 4
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Amazon extends the life of its servers to six years, expects $900m benefit in 90 days Cloud optimization efforts ebb, and migrations resume Off-Prem02 Feb 2024 | 16
'Birthplace of Amazon' on the market for $2.28M 'Affordable' for the neighborhood Bootnotes24 Jan 2024 | 21
AWS Marketplace adds sales of third-party services Cloud-ready software and implementation from your preferred consultants, on one bill Channel23 Jan 2024 | 1
Amazon plots massive cloud expansion in Japan with $15B investment Land of the rising profit? PaaS + IaaS21 Jan 2024 |
In just one year, UK.gov's direct spend on AWS rises 76 percent Cloud vendor remains a distance behind leading tech suppliers though Public Sector13 Dec 2023 | 2
AWS S3 is 'pushing to become primary storage for a lot of applications' re:Invent We speak to Andy Warfield, AWS distinguished engineer Storage12 Dec 2023 | 6
AWS accuses Microsoft of clipping customers' cloud freedoms World's biggest off-prem service slinger submits comments to UK cloud inquiry, mostly has Redmond HQ's rival in its sights PaaS + IaaS07 Dec 2023 | 8
AWS exec: 'Our understanding of open source has started to change' Interview Apache Foundation president David Nalley on Amazon Linux 2023, Free software, and more PaaS + IaaS04 Dec 2023 | 23
Google submits complaints about Microsoft licensing to UK competition regulator Now Microsoft has regulator breathing down its neck in three regions PaaS + IaaS01 Dec 2023 | 7
AWS rakes in half a billion pounds from UK Home Office Someone has to top up the Bezos rocket fund, like British taxpayers PaaS + IaaS01 Dec 2023 | 37
You're so worried about AWS reliability, the cloud giant now lets you simulate major outages re:Invent Fake it 'til you break it, for a whole availability zone or WAN FAIL Off-Prem01 Dec 2023 | 9
Watchdog claims retaliation from military after questioning cushy federal IT contracts Special report IT-AAC had a hand in scrutinizing JEDI, now faces probe for challenging $300M+ single-source deals Public Sector30 Nov 2023 | 12
The AI everything show continues at AWS: Generate SQL from text, vector search, and more re:Invent Invisible watermarks on AI-generated images? Sure. But major tools in the stack matter most Databases30 Nov 2023 | 6
Now AWS gets a ChatGPT-style Copilot: Amazon Q to be your cloud chat assistant Re:Invent Anthropic CEO also rocks up on stage for reasons Devops28 Nov 2023 | 7
AWS unveils core-packed Graviton4 and beefier Trainium accelerators for AI Re:Invent Also hedging its bets with a healthy dose of Nvidia chips too Systems28 Nov 2023 | 2
AWS previews AppFabric for productivity – pitched as AI-powered glue between apps Re:Invent Park user data in Amazon's servers for ML-generated insights and actions – yea or nay for you? Devops28 Nov 2023 | 1
AWS plays with Fire TV Cube, turns it into a thin client for cloudy desktops re:Invent $195 a pop, delivered, pre-provisioned ready to stream desktops or apps Off-Prem27 Nov 2023 | 28
Sumo Logic wrestles with security breach, pins down customer data Compromised AWS account led to fears that user info could have been exposed to cybercriminals Cyber-crime21 Nov 2023 |
Amazon's Project Kuiper satellites nail online orders from orbit Late-stage capitalism ... in spaaace Networks17 Nov 2023 | 22
AWS staffer shows off the workplace that used to be a prison Panopticon design gains new meaning for the all powerful cloud platform Bootnotes13 Nov 2023 | 15
Desperately seeking GPUs? AWS will let you reserve instances in advance – no refunds Better make sure you really need it on the day. Paid upfront and no modifications to orders allowed AI + ML01 Nov 2023 | 1
Cryptojackers steal AWS credentials from GitHub in 5 minutes Researchers just scratching surface of their understanding of campaign dating back to 2020 Research30 Oct 2023 | 3
AWS CEO talks up AI to focus minds of Wall Street types Q3 sales below forecasts, profits up, and conversation centers on LLMs and GenAI PaaS + IaaS27 Oct 2023 | 2
AWS says it wants in on the European sovereign cloud game Appealing to growing crowd that wants data outside US jurisdiction PaaS + IaaS25 Oct 2023 | 11
Imagine a world without egress fees or cloud software license disparities UK regulator lists series of potential remedies for anti-competitive practices early on in probe Public Sector20 Oct 2023 | 5
HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' zero-day exploited in biggest DDoS deluge seen yet Botnet storm drowned last record with 398 million requests per second CSO10 Oct 2023 | 13
Obscured by clouds: Time for IaaS vendors to come clean and play fair Opinion All that stuff about resilience, choice, and control? Yeah, we'll take them now please PaaS + IaaS09 Oct 2023 | 9
UK IaaS market: Deeper probe by competition regulator lands soon Updated Ofcom to refer findings to CMA – which insiders say will home in on egress fees, interoperability and licensing PaaS + IaaS03 Oct 2023 | 5
AWS stirs the MadPot – busting bot baddies and eastern espionage Interview Security exec Mark Ryland spills the tea on hush-hush threat intel tool Cyber-crime02 Oct 2023 | 5
Alexa's future is pay-to-play, departing Amazon exec predicts This just after Amazon started charging for Alexa's free home security Guard AI + ML25 Sep 2023 | 15
AWS spins up more cloudy Mac Minis, now with M2 Pro silicon Andy Jassy's rent-a-Macs have no love for the vanilla M2, and the Max and Ultra aren't used in the Mini PaaS + IaaS20 Sep 2023 | 10
Cryptojackers spread their nets to capture more than just EC2 AMBERSQUID operation takes AWS's paths less travelled in search of compute Research18 Sep 2023 | 3
Google exec: Microsoft Teams concession 'too little, too late' If you don't tackle Redmond's abuse of software licensing in rival clouds it'll be game over for innovation, warns Amit Zavery Cloud Infrastructure Week15 Sep 2023 | 39
AWS shuts down its first-gen compute and network infrastructure The legacy lives on even though EC2-Classic and its flat network are no more PaaS + IaaS05 Sep 2023 | 1
2023 World Solar Challenge entrant welcomes clouds – not the fluffy white ones Special Projects Bureau Revisited Solar roller on Australia-spanning race packs an Nvidia Jetson, radio link to an AWS edge box, and Starlink uplink Offbeat04 Sep 2023 | 15
FreeBSD can now boot in 25 milliseconds On AWS Firecracker – but there are other new micro-VM engines around, too Applications29 Aug 2023 | 80
Amazon Linux 2023 virtual machine images still MIA Enterprise Linux users question web giant's commitment to hybrid cloud Cloud Infrastructure Week25 Aug 2023 | 13
Microsoft still prohibits Google or Alibaba from running O365 Windows Apps Almost a month after AWS concession, Redmond keeping mum on reason for locking rivals out PaaS + IaaS25 Aug 2023 | 40
Dropbox limits ‘all the storage you need’ unlimited plan, blames abusive users One percent of customers store more than 35TB. And before you ask: Yes, you can blame crypto creeps for this Storage24 Aug 2023 | 80
AMD adds 4th-gen Epycs to AWS in HPC and normie workload flavors Silicon joins Amazon's homegrown Gravitons, Intel's Sapphire Rapids Xeons Cloud Infrastructure Week21 Aug 2023 |
Amazon's rumored investment in Arm's IPO might be good insurance Analysis What benefits the chip designer will trickle down to AWS's Graviton team Systems11 Aug 2023 | 5
Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the world They kept that quiet Systems08 Aug 2023 | 24
Blue Origin tells staff to catch next rocket back to their desks Face colleagues five days a week, Jeff Bezos' space firm says On-Prem03 Aug 2023 | 39
AWS is running a 96-core, 192-thread, custom Xeon server Updated Amid all the Graviton chat, cloud colossus still has a soft spot for Chipzilla PaaS + IaaS03 Aug 2023 | 15
Microsoft concession: You can run our wares in AWS virtual desktop under 'revised policy' Interest from antitrust regulators spurred action? Still a pricey option, says analyst, and change doesn't help Google or Alibaba customers PaaS + IaaS02 Aug 2023 | 6
Microsoft India poaches former AWS India boss Puneet Chandok Current boss bails for unspecified non-tech gig Software02 Aug 2023 |
AWS and IBM Netezza come out in support of Iceberg in table format face-off Join Snowflake, Cloudera, Google as Apache format fans Databases01 Aug 2023 |
AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay Perhaps that'll focus your minds on speeding up your adoption of IPv6, eh? Networks31 Jul 2023 | 68
MySQL Heatwave dives into object storage data lakes Oracle joins the analytics anywhere bandwagon, promises future access to AWS S3 SaaS20 Jul 2023 | 2
Antitrust clouds continue to gather over Microsoft's European business Regional trade group applies to partake in Germany's probe of Redmond's cloud software policies Sysadmin Month19 Jul 2023 | 6
AWS and Azure own lion's share of $120B cloud infrastructure market China's Alibaba comes in third followed by Google and Huawei PaaS + IaaS18 Jul 2023 | 2
Infosec watchers: TeamTNT crew may blast holes in Azure, Google Cloud users Why limit yourself to only stealing AWS credentials? Cyber-crime15 Jul 2023 |
IBM sets Watson chips on the AI case as price war kicks off Amazon, Microsoft and VMware make their moves in the game of machines AI + ML13 Jul 2023 | 2
Microsoft drops out of top three for UK software and IT services AWS now biggest supplier in Britain, according to TechMarketView PaaS + IaaS06 Jul 2023 | 8
Japan rebukes Fujitsu for cloud security fails Asia In Brief PLUS: Philippines cyber-slave raid; South Korea’s crypto crackdown; AWS boosts Chinese exports; and more Security03 Jul 2023 |