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Amazon Web Services Achieves £5.6bn In Sales In 2015
Amazon Web Services now on £7bn annual run rate as fourth quarter revenues reach £1.7bn
Does China’s AliCloud Pose A Real Threat To Amazon Web Services?
With its latest investment, Alibaba pushes AliCloud's global cloud ambitions even further, but can it take on global cloud competitors outside of China?
Unisys Brings ‘Stealth’ Enterprise Security To AWS Cloud
Unisys Stealth delivers micro-segmentation on the Amazon Web Services Cloud for improved security and management, lower costs and faster results
Amazon Web Services Indiana Wind Farm Goes Live
Fowler Ridge adds to AWS' 40 percent renewable energy goal by the end of 2016
Microsoft Slashes Azure Costs, Slams AWS Instances
Azure drops Dv2 VM costs by up to 17 percent
Amazon Web Services Announces Canadian Region
AWS will launch a cloud region in Canada in 2016, powered almost entirely by renewable hydro power
Public Cloud Grew Faster Than Both Private And Hybrid Cloud In 2015
Total cloud revenues hit $110bn, growing 28 percent annually
AWS WorkMail Email And Calendar Service Moves Into General Availability
WorkMail email service goes public with future updates including a single Global Address Book and email journaling feature
How Retailers Can Simply Have A Wonderful Christmastime
Ian Massingham, UK Tech Evangelist, Amazon Web Services, talks us through how cloud is king for retail during the festive period
AWS IoT Launches With Robotics, Gaming And Cars In Mind
AWS IoT platform goes live, with Amazon Web Services counting Philips and Scout Alarm as early customers
AWS Tiny T2.Nano Instances Go Live
Burstable AWS Nano instances join fleet of t2.micro, t2.small, and t2.medium instances
Equinix Lays Down London-Based AWS Direct Connect Service
Announcement comes as new Equinix acquisition Telecity fails Direct Connect customers with two-day data centre outage
Amazon Wind Services: AWS Plans New US Wind Farm
AWS unveils a central US wind farm to meet 2016 cloud energy targets
AWS Launches South Korea Data Centres
AWS opens twelfth region globally for startups, gaming companies and enterprises
AWS Heralded As “Fastest-Growing Enterprise Technology Company In History”
Deutsche Bank analyst predicts AWS 2017 valuation of $160 billion (£104bn) on 2017 revenues of $16 billion (£10.3bn)
Microsoft, Amazon Reap Cloud Benefits
Cloud services including AWS, Office 365, Azure have boosted Microsoft and Amazon financials
AWS Boss: Every Large Tech Company In the World Wants To “Copy” Amazon Web Services
AWS’ Andy Jassy on the Alibaba threat and competition from Google and Microsoft
AWS Launches QuickSight Analytics Tool And Snowball Physical Storage Appliance
re:Invent 2015: AWS brings fight to business intelligence and big data transportation
Box Will Let Customers Use Third Party Cloud Storage
Box adds new security, data protection features and will let users control storage, network and encryption keys
Amazon Web Services Under Threat From Crypto Key Vulnerability
Researchers claim attackers can exploit co-located virtual machines to scoop up RSA keys of other users on Amazon's EC2 cloud service
AWS Recovers After Weekend Outage
AWS issue at an East Coast data centre caused weekend disruption for major websites
Alibaba Builds Lake-Cooled Data Centre
Latest cloud move from Alibaba's cloud division Aliyun sees Chinese data centre cooled by nearby lake water
AWS Machine Learning Goes Live In Europe
Dublin region plays hosts to AWS' machine learning platform, "address limitations organisations may have" related to the location of their data
Amazon Web Services Launches London Startup Centre
Pop up loft will offer training and boot camps to emerging startups as UK becomes "hotbed of innovation"
How Much Is Your Comms Room Costing You?
Simon Osman, CEO of iFollowOffice, discusses financially viable alternatives to the traditional comms room
AWS Suffers Another Cloud Outage
AWS EC2 and S3 taken down in US regions as yellow-tick horror shocks GitHub
Amazon Web Services Launches Aurora Database Engine
Amazon Web Services' Aurora claims to be five times faster than a typical MySQL database, handles 6 million inserts per minute
Alibaba’s Ambitious US Cloud Plans Just Got Serious
Alibaba's cloud computing division Aliyun has unveiled plans to protect user data with a "Data Protection Pact" as the firm looks to expand in the West
AWS Launches Service Catalog For IT Departments
AWS Service Catalog allows users to browse internal 'marketplace' of AWS products to run at their own will, with permission from an IT admin