In an email to AWS employees, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy underscored the staggering potential size of the cloud relative to current spending.
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As if he weren’t facing enough of a challenge, new AWS chief Adam Selipsky also has to follow the truly legendary act of Andy Jassy.
Look for Larry Ellison to come out swinging against major rivals during the March 10 Oracle Q3 earnings call.
The Microsoft leader clearly alluded to AWS when he said cloud providers that compete with customers in other biz will never establish trust.
Gartner: 75% of all databases will be deployed or migrated to a cloud platform by 2022. Subscribe to the new Cloud Database Report.
The cloud database market is being upended by a new breed of providers, led by Snowflake but there are many others.
Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison underscored that the enemy of his enemy is his friend by claiming Snowflake “is killing” Amazon Redshift.
Six takeaways from CEO Andy Jassy’s opening keynote to the AWS re:invent conference, including the impact COVID-19 has had on cloud adoption.
Microsoft will face intensified pressure to hold the #1 spot in 2021 from Google, Amazon, and a few of the world’s other top cloud vendors.
The three vendors whose cloud revenue is growing most rapidly are Google at 44.8%, Oracle 33% (estimated), and Microsoft 31%.
Guest author Jiri Kram explores what Larry Ellison’s unexpected frontal attack on Salesforce could mean for AWS.
Oracle has pointedly and publicly called out AWS by claiming Oracle’s new Exadata Cloud Service X8M crushes competing services from AWS.
The surging and superior results from Amazon’s “traditional” businesses might provide Bezos with the impetus to spin out AWS next year.
Google Cloud retained its claim to being the fastest-growing cloud vendor by boosting its revenue 44.8% in Q3.
On the recent Amazon earnings numbers, to clarify: anyone who thinks that AWS is “in trouble” or because its growth rate was “only” 29% is nuts.
Amazon’s new enterprise-cloud business unit is called Aerospace and Satellite Solutions, building on the AWS Ground Station capabilities announced in 2019.
Few if any companies have ever experienced a quarter that can match what Zoom Communications and founder Eric Yuan have just been through.
Guest author Jiri Kram takes through the last decade or so, to explore how 151-year old Goldman Sachs is becoming a technology company.
Video-conferencing company 8×8 remains an AWS customer, but the new deal has Oracle cloud infrastructure handling its surging video workloads.
While the prospect of a Q2 downturn is real, the cloud industry’s 3 big hyperscalers generated Q1 revenue of $26.3B, and Amazon topped $10B for first time.



















