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...AWS says it can’t tell whether data is being exported to a rival or whether it’s being used in a service such as video-streaming....
...Both Microsoft and Amazon’s earnings showed envious growth in cloud computing, including 22 per cent in year on year first-quarter Azure revenue growth and 16 per cent for AWS....
...“Customers who lean in with AWS on larger, longer-term commitments tend to enjoy the best economics,” said Elizabeth Baker, vice-president of AWS global deal strategy and programs....
...Meanwhile, Amazon’s most prominent alliance among the AI start-ups so far is Stability AI, which in November declared AWS its “preferred cloud partner” for building and training its media-generation models...
...AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google, referred to as “hyperscalers” because of the size of the data centres used to process and store data, generate about 81 per cent of revenues in the £15bn UK cloud market,...
...Yet Google is still a distant third to AWS, which has 31 per cent of the market, and Microsoft, which has 21 per cent. Amazon had a first-mover advantage....
...That compares to $62bn pulled in by Amazon’s AWS business and the $60bn Microsoft made from its intelligent cloud division. Microsoft bought a number of smaller cyber security companies last year....
...“We definitely want to be the AWS of Web3,” Nailwal said, referring to Amazon’s cloud computing division....
...He added that the acquisition was both “strategic and somewhat defensive” as Google seeks to “compete aggressively with the much larger AWS and [Microsoft] Azure”....
...AWS and Microsoft got to this idea first, with services known, respectively, as Outposts and Azure Stack....
...Google, AWS and Microsoft all declined to comment. The SFC regulations are separate to the security law and were intended to enable faster access to corporate records during raids by regulators....
...The acquisition brings expertise in cryptography to AWS, he added....
...Deals have ranged from providing computing power closer to telecoms masts to support 5G services, known as “edge computing”, to a move by Dish Network in the US to host its 5G network in Amazon’s AWS servers...
...The letter said that AWS had been in touch with the controversial forum for “several weeks”, bringing to its attention 98 instances of posts that “clearly encourage and incite violence”....
...The AWS outage, which Amazon later said was caused by a minor configuration change, affected thousands of apps and sites that rely on the cloud computing platform, including Adobe and the Washington Post...
...One huge job move to start: Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos will step aside later this year to become executive chairman, making way for Andy Jassy, who currently heads up its cloud computing division, AWS...
...AWS and Alibaba have also both targeted Indonesia, the world’s fourth most populous country....
...The business generated sales of $2.6bn for the past quarter — about a quarter the size of Amazon’s AWS....
...Many in the games industry had expected Amazon to enter the market too, building on the strength of its AWS cloud computing service and Twitch, which allows players to share live video of their games....
...As an independent company, AWS would stir less fear among potential customers, said Dave Bartoletti, an analyst at Forrester Research....
...The emergence of a handful of dominant cloud computing platforms — led by AWS and Microsoft’s Azure, but also including Google and IBM — is forcing others in the IT industry to decide which are likely to...
...Salesforce named AWS as its first “preferred provider” of cloud computing infrastructure last year....
...Adam Ghetti, chief executive of Ionic Security, said the company had already seen “tremendous interest” in its partnership with AWS in Europe....
...Lydia Leong, analyst at Gartner, said the profitability of AWS was a surprise....
...Julius Genachowski, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, has circulated proposals to his fellow commissioners that would allow Dish to use its “AWS-4” satellite spectrum for broad terrestrial...
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