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Full text: Microsoft’s multi-cloud vision would keep Amazon from running away...
Amazon Web Services is the unstated subject of a draft multi-cloud vision statement circulated by Microsoft, calling on the federal agencies to avoid over-reliance on a single cloud vendor. (GeekWire...
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How the economy is hitting the Amazon and Microsoft clouds, and what they’re...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company is proactively helping customers optimize cloud workloads, sacrificing short-term revenue growth for long-term customer loyalty. (Microsoft Photo) After...
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What to expect at re:Invent: Amazon Web Services navigates uncertain economic...
Adam Selipsky, AWS CEO, will lead his second re:Invent since returning to Amazon last year. (Amazon Photo) Amazon Web Services will face a new challenge at its annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas...
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Amazon Web Services pitches customers on cloud savings, makes bigger push...
Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky at AWS re:Invent on Tuesday morning. (Image via webcast.) Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky made his pitch to businesses to double down on the company’s cloud...
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Pentagon splits giant cloud contract among Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle
The Pentagon. (Flickr Photo / David B. Gleason cc2.0) Correction: This story previously misstated the total value of the contracts. The U.S. Department of Defense awarded cloud contracts with a...
View ArticleChatGPT coming to Azure: New integration shows how Microsoft will leverage...
Pablo Castro, distinguished engineer on Microsoft Azure’s AI team, demonstrates the Azure OpenAI Service. Having trouble reliably accessing OpenAI’s ChatGPT? Microsoft has a solution. The tech giant...
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Microsoft’s ‘multibillion dollar’ OpenAI investment comes with new level of...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says AI will continue to be a growth area for the company, driving “the next major wave of computing.” (GeekWire File Photo) Microsoft is making a big new investment in...
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What Microsoft’s numbers say about the state of the tech economy
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says customers are becoming more cautious in their spending, and trying to get more value out of what they’re spending already. (GeekWire File Photo / Kevin Lisota) Things...
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Amazon confirms abrupt departure of AWS data center chief Chris Vonderhaar
GeekWire File Photo The Amazon Web Services executive who oversaw the cloud giant’s massive network of data centers is suddenly gone, without explanation. Amazon confirmed the departure of Chris...
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Amazon looks to boost generative AI projects with new $100M cloud initiative
Amazon Web Services say a new initiative will connect internal experts with customers and partners to accelerate generative AI applications. (GeekWire File Photo / Todd Bishop) Amazon Web Services...
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Former Amazon Web Services data center leader Chris Vonderhaar joins Google...
Chris Vonderhaar, former Amazon Web Services data center leader, will serve as Google Cloud’s vice president of demand and supply management. (LinkedIn Photo) Chris Vonderhaar, a longtime Amazon Web...
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Chinese hacking group exploited multiple Microsoft flaws to access U.S....
GeekWire File Photo Microsoft is providing new details about the techniques used by a Chinese hacking group to infiltrate the email accounts of an estimated 25 organizations and government agencies,...
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Google Cloud posts second straight profitable quarter on 28% revenue growth
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,...
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Amazon’s cloud business and AI initiatives in the spotlight in advance of...
Amazon’s cloud revenue growth rate and its artificial intelligence initiatives will be closely scrutinized when the company reports second-quarter earnings Thursday afternoon, Aug. 3. Wall Street...
View ArticleAmazon Web Services acquires Fig, a YC grad that boosts the command line for...
Amazon Web Services has acquired Fig, a small San Francisco-based startup that helps developers be more efficient and collaborative while using the command line. Fig has several products, including...
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Amazon pours up to $4B into AI startup Anthropic, escalating rivalry with...
Dr. Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO, Anthropic, at the 2023 Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Park City, Utah. (Photo by Stuart Isett/Fortune, Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 2.0, via Flickr.) Amazon...
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Cloud startup Pulumi raises $41M from Madrona, NEA to grow ‘infrastructure as...
From left: Pulumi CTO Luke Hoban; Pulumi CEO Joe Duffy; Pulumi co-founder and chairman Eric Rudder; and Madrona Managing Director S. “Soma” Somasegar. (Pulumi Photo) Seattle startup Pulumi landed $41...
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Microsoft and Oracle, frenemies at last: What others can learn from their...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, left, with Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison, announcing their recent partnership. (Microsoft Photo / Dan DeLong) “All partnerships are tactical. There is no such...
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UK regulator puts Amazon and Microsoft on notice with details of cloud...
The Competition and Markets Authority’s cloud investigation is shaping up as Microsoft’s latest tangle with UK regulators. (BigStock Photo) The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) outlined...
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AI in the cloud: Microsoft boosts share; Amazon predicts ‘tens of billions’...
“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 /...
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