Network World

MAY 24, 2024

Research by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has uncovered concerns that cloud users’ established commitments with hyperscalers may limit their future cloud computing options. The study focused on perceptions of their infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings.

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GeekWire

MAY 21, 2024

(Microsoft Photo / Scott Eklund) Online education platform Khan Academy is shifting a portion of its cloud workload to Microsoft Azure under a partnership announced Tuesday morning. The AI assistant will now be powered by the Azure OpenAI Service, according to the company.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Amazon Web Services will face a new challenge at its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas this week: keeping software developers and big corporate customers engaged with the long-term potential of its cloud platform, while grappling with the more immediate realities of an economic downturn. Amazon Photo).

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GeekWire

JUNE 15, 2020

The cloud rivalry between Amazon and Microsoft continues to heat up. Amazon announced Monday that it will open a 111,000-square-foot office for more than 600 Amazon Web Services workers in Redmond, Wash. AWS is the market leader in the cloud computing industry, but Microsoft’s Azure has been gaining ground in recent years.

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GeekWire

APRIL 15, 2024

LinkedIn Photo) Tadao Nagasaki , a longtime tech exec who led Japan-related operations for Amazon Web Services and F5, is joining OpenAI to head up the company’s new hub in Tokyo, its first office in Asia. The cloud giant also said in January it would invest around $15 billion by 2027 in Japan. Tadao Nagasaki.

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GeekWire

JULY 25, 2023

A sign inside the Google Cloud campus in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Google Cloud boosted its operating profits to $395 million for the second quarter, a improvement of close to $1 billion from its loss of $590 million in the same quarter a year ago.

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GeekWire

MAY 27, 2021

which has its corporate headquarters in Chicago, is reportedly at the center of a bidding war between Amazon, Microsoft and Google for a cloud computing contract. For what it’s worth, Google Cloud sent us a “no comment” email.). The Boeing Co., Boeing Photo).

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Amazon Web Services, the cloud computing giant led by the now-future Amazon CEO , closed out 2020 with more than $13.5 billion in annual operating profits, responsible for more than 63% of the entire company’s operating profits for the year, on annual AWS revenue of $45.3 billion, up nearly 30% year-over-year.

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GeekWire

MAY 31, 2024

Adam Selipsky, shown here at AWS re:Invent in November 2023, is working his last day as Amazon Web Services CEO today, before longtime AWS executive Matt Garman takes over the top job next week. But as Selipsky pointed out, Amazon and other companies have been deeply immersed in AI and machine learning for many years.

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GeekWire

MAY 14, 2024

GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky is stepping down from the role, three years after returning to the company to lead the cloud giant, according to an internal memo from Amazon CEO Andy Jassy to employees Tuesday morning. Adam Selipsky at AWS re:Invent 2023.

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GeekWire

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services will reorganize its Sales, Marketing, and Global Services (SMGS) group to “lay the foundation for accelerated customer impact and growth in the years ahead,” according to an internal memo Monday morning. See full text below.)

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 30, 2023

“AI projects are not just about AI meters, they have lots of other cloud meters as well,” said Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, citing the impact of AI on the Azure cloud platform. GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) AI is starting to generate real money for the big cloud providers. storage and computing).

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GeekWire

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy with a chart showing AWS revenue growth at the company’s virtual re:Invent conference this week. Jassy showed stats that put AWS’s share of the cloud infrastructure market at 45%, more than double its closest competitor, Microsoft Azure. Screenshot via webcast). A recent U.S.

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GeekWire

JULY 27, 2023

(Madrona Venture Group Photo) — James Phillips , a former corporate vice president and president at Microsoft, joined Google Cloud as a vice president. He led teams working on various cloud-related services and platforms, including Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and the Azure AI Platform. iSpot ranks No. iSpot ranks No.

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GeekWire

JUNE 8, 2020

A lawsuit filed by Amazon against Brian Hall, former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing, alleges that his new role at Google Cloud violates the terms of his non-compete agreement with the Seattle company and risks exposing valuable competitive information to one of its biggest rivals.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Amazon will invest up to $4 billion and take a minority stake in Anthropic , the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company founded two years ago by former OpenAI executives and considered one of the world’s top AI labs. Anthropic makes large-scale AI models and a chatbot called Claude. ”

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

(Millworks Analytics Photo) Former Tableau CFO Damon Fletcher is coming out of retirement to launch a startup that helps tech companies get a hold of their cloud costs amid a surge in spending driven by artificial intelligence. Fletcher recruited former Tableau colleague Michael Arvold to be the company’s co-founder and CTO.

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GeekWire

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Oracle Chairman and CTO Larry Ellison made a rare joint appearance this afternoon to announce the next stage in their partnership, a new service that will let customers run Oracle’s database services and cloud infrastructure in Microsoft’s Azure data centers.

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Venture Beast

MAY 17, 2021

France said its state and corporate data can be stored on Google and Microsoft's cloud services which have been licensed to French companies. Read More.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Madrona Venture Group, which led the company’s seed round in 2017, led the latest round. The Series C round is a vote of confidence in Pulumi, which helps developers build underlying cloud computing infrastructure using general purpose languages such as JavaScript and Python. The company has more than 100 employees.

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Venture Beast

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Google Cloud is extending research credits to nonprofit researchers, according to an announcement in a company blog post. Read More.

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Network World

MAY 22, 2024

In a reversal of earlier reports, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has clarified that it has not halted orders for Nvidia’s most advanced chip. With Project Cebia, the goalposts are actually moving and Amazon needs to be at the leading edge to catch up with Google, and Microsoft in this AI race.”

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GeekWire

MARCH 5, 2022

A flurry of tech companies — including Amazon, Microsoft, and Google — are halting sales of services and products in Russia in response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine and resulting government sanctions. Cutting off access to crucial internet services is another. based security tech company Polyverse.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 11, 2024

In a cloud market dominated by three vendors, once cloud-denier Oracle is making a push for enterprise share gains, announcing expanded offerings and customer wins across the globe, including Japan , Mexico , and the Middle East.

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GeekWire

APRIL 30, 2024

(Amazon Image) Amazon says it will give non-developers the ability to create apps using natural language as part of a new feature for Amazon Q , the AI assistant unveiled by Amazon Web Services last fall. The announcement is part of a new trend of the company announcing new AI features just prior to its quarterly earnings report.

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GeekWire

JULY 17, 2020

Amazon has reached a confidential legal settlement with Brian Hall, a former Amazon Web Services vice president of product marketing who was sued by the company after taking a job with Google Cloud in alleged violation of the non-compete clause in his Amazon employment agreement. Brian Hall.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 26, 2023

Google Cloud, the cloud computing arm of Alphabet, has turned profitable at an operating level for the first time ever, despite fears of macroeconomic uncertainty. Google Cloud’s mounting losses for the past few years could be attributed to the continued investments, especially in data centers. billion share.

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GeekWire

MARCH 23, 2021

Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will join Amazon Web Services as its new CEO. Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. Jassy led AWS since the cloud computing business launched in 2006.

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Venture Beast

MARCH 31, 2021

Enterprise-focused data cloud company Cloudera has announced that its data platform is now available on Google Cloud. Read More.

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The Verge

MAY 13, 2021

Google said on Thursday that it signed a deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to use the space company’s growing satellite internet service, Starlink, with its cloud unit. The Google-SpaceX deal marks another competitive win for Google in its own rivalry with Amazon’s behemoth cloud services unit, Amazon Web Services.

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GeekWire

AUGUST 31, 2020

A new startup out of Seattle called Cloudshim just raised $120,000 to help grow the company’s self-serve cloud management platform. “This has left a void to be filled for customers that just want a simple and quick way to manage their cloud without heavy contractual processes.”

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GeekWire

MARCH 8, 2022

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian calls the Mandiant acquisition “an opportunity to deliver an end-to-end security operations suite.” ” (Google File Photo). Google’s agreement to buy cybersecurity company Mandiant for $5.4 It also reflects a growth area for the cloud giants.

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TM Forum

JUNE 30, 2021

Microsoft's public cloud in a deal. that involves the software company acquiring AT&T’s Network Cloud platform technology. with Google Cloud to develop and deliver 5G and edge solutions for telcos and enterprises. Microsoft revealed its ambitions in telecom network services last year when it.

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TM Forum

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Telcos often view hyperscale cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Google and Microsoft as competition, complaining that the digital natives have a distinct advantage because they aren’t hamstrung by regulation.

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GeekWire

JUNE 10, 2020

Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks at Google Cloud Next in 2019. Amazon and a former Amazon Web Services vice president are fighting in court over his proposed assignment reviewing speeches for the upcoming virtual version of the conference this year. Google Photo). Amazon Photo).

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 4, 2024

In a fresh round of layoffs, Amazon is laying off hundreds in the company’s cloud division, Amazon Web Services (AWS). This move comes as the company seeks to streamline its operations and focus on areas that deliver a better return on investment. Google also saw an increase in its market share.

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GeekWire

MAY 19, 2024

Most popular stories on GeekWire Tech Moves: Google Cloud VP joins AWS; Unity CTO departs; PitchBook founder steps down — Baskar Sridharan, a longtime Seattle-area software engineering leader who was most recently a vice president at Google, joined Amazon Web Services as a vice president leading the AI/ML Services and Infrastructure team.

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