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. He did not acknowledge the AWS outage that impacted a large swath of the internet last week. Nor did he seek to alleviate concerns about Amazon Web Services’ market power.
Venture Beast
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
Microsoft says its cloud security tool, Defender for Cloud, now supports Google Cloud, in addition to Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Azure. 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.
Vox
JUNE 8, 2021
Swaths of websites went down on Tuesday morning after an outage at the cloud computing services provider Fastly. Internet users were unable to access major news outlets, e-commerce platforms, and even government websites. Everyone from Amazon to the New York Times to the White House was affected.
Gizmodo
NOVEMBER 16, 2021
Spotify, Discord, and Snapchat were all experiencing issues on Tuesday, with early reports indicating that a brief Google Cloud outage could have been the culprit. Read more.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 8, 2022
That’s the top-line finding four months into Google’s initiative to enroll users in two-factor authentication by default, detailed in a blog post to coincide with Safer Internet Day on February 8th. In the latest post, Google says it observed a 50 percent decrease in accounts being compromised among that test user group.
The Verge
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
The Economic Security Project is trying to make a point about big tech monopolies by releasing a browser plugin that will block any sites that reach out to IP addresses owned by Google, Facebook, Microsoft, or Amazon. Many websites use fonts from Google Fonts, or host their sites using Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure.
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