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
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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
AWS Rolls Out Powerful, Fast Cloud Offerings
New AWS M4 general-purpose instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon chips and include networking features that reduce latency
How AWS Plans To Deal With This Year’s Leap Second
AWS attempts to spread a whole extra second across its servers over a period of 24 hours to minimise UTC disruption
AWS Educate Looks To Prepare The Next Generation Cloud Workforce
AWS educational program for teachers will inject cloud framework into the curriculum
Amazon Web Services Makes £1 Billion First Quarter Revenue
E-commerce giant finally reveals massive Amazon Web Services public cloud earnings for the first quarter of 2015
What To Expect From AWS’ First Ever Public Financial Results
First quarter results from Amazon will be the first to reveal specific revenues from its public cloud business AWS
Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure Lead IaaS Market
While AWS is used by the majority of enterprise IaaS customers, Microsoft Azure is the next most likely IaaS vendor to be evaluated
Splunk Spreads Its Wings With AWS Cloud Partnership
Splunk Cloud now available across nine global AWS regions, as well as AWS GovCloud
AWS Releases Machine Learning As A Service
AWS woos developers and their data lake wants and needs, follows Microsoft Azure’s February machine learning release
Moving AWS Data In Europe Is Now Even Safer, Claims Amazon
AWS’ Data Processing Agreement gets Data Protection Authorities' nod of approval
Amazon Web Services Plugs In NASA Satellite Images
Landsat 8 satellite images made available on Amazon Web Services in humanitarian aid and education drive
Google Cloud Splutters Offline For Two Hours
Compute Engine suffers overnight downtime in multiple zones taking down Google Cloud
Amazon, Watch Out – Microsoft Has The Fastest-Growing Cloud
But can it ever threaten Amazon’s 30 percent global market share?
Amazon Targets Businesses With WorkMail Cloud Service
Amazon challenges Microsoft and Google with the launch of an email service aimed at businesses
Amazon Web Services Announces Wind Farm To Power Data Centres
500,000 MWh AWS turbines will help firm meet renewable targets
Quiz Of The Week – Amazon Web Services
Are you clued up about Amazon's cloud computing platform?
Verizon Starts 2015 With Weekend Downtime
Scheduled maintenance could take up to 48 hours
AWS’s New Lambda Service Automates Compute Resources
AWS-oriented developers will be able to speed along their work a lot more when they get their hands on the new free tools
Amazon Cloud Boss Confirms Data Centre Expansion
Amazon expects cloud revenues to eventually overtake that of its global retail operation
NetApp’s New Cloud Packages For AWS, SoftLayer, Azure
Company has new version of its clustered Data Ontap operating system, a new OnCommand Cloud Manager and NetApp Private Storage for Cloud
Amazon Boosts Privacy Law Compliance With New Frankfurt AWS Data Centres
AWS data centre hopes to help German businesses move workloads to the cloud
Xiaomi To Move International User Data Out Of China
Xiaomi prepares for international expansion by trying to ease privacy concerns
Google Relaunches Cloud Price War With Cut-Price Offer
10 percent price cut down to more efficient data centres, search giant says
Amazon Cuts Cloud Platform Prices
Amazon responds to Google slashing prices on its services as cloud platform price war heats up
Google Slashes Cloud Storage Costs
Cheaper Cloud Platform offerings will help Google take on likes of Amazon Web Services and the newly-renamed Microsoft Azure
Amazon Gets Into Desktop Virtualisation Game With WorkSpaces
Citrix, VMware and the rest of the desktop virtualisation market have a massive new competitor to deal with
G-Cloud 4 Goes Live With Amazon Web Services
The latest iteration of the government's G-Cloud goes live with Amazon Web Services finally on board
Amazon Web Services Hit By Service Interruption
Customers using Amazon Web Services' US-East data centre availability zone experienced service problems for several hours due to a device failure
Amazon Aims At Big Data Crunchers With High Memory Cluster Offer
Want to do data crunching but on an on-demand basis? AWS may have the answer