Google Cloud retained its claim to being the fastest-growing cloud vendor by boosting its revenue 44.8% in Q3.
AWS
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.
Despite COVID-19’s economic toll, Microsoft’s strong Q1 growth indicates that the 5 largest cloud vendors could generate cloud revenue of $150B+ in 2020.
IT director Steve Schechter shares 4 steps he took to cut cloud-hosting costs for a client by nearly a third & how companies can keep costs down long-term.
My take on how Google Cloud snatched AWS client Major League Baseball (MLB) on the strength of multiple technologies plus YouTube and Ad Manager.
Stream the latest episode of the Cloud Wars Live podcast, where Sean Ammirati and I discuss the many reasons why Amazon should spin out AWS.
At a recent Goldman Sachs investors conference, Thomas Kurian was asked during for this thoughts on the AWS Super Bowl ads.
Read my open letter response to reports that AWS CEO Andy Jassy said that it’s “folklore” to believe Amazon chews up every industry it enters.
Google Cloud reported a Q4 53% growth rate and a $10.4 billion annualized run rate, but the only way it can catch Amazon is through aggressive M&A.
TechCrunch recently stated that “Microsoft is miles behind [ AWS ].” But official financial documents show that Microsoft’s cloud biz is much larger.
Speaking to investors last month, Microsoft corporate VP for cloud marketing Takeshi Numoto says that cloud migrations with MSFT is cheaper than with AWS.
Microsoft Azure has become more popular than Amazon’s AWS as the public-cloud infrastructure of choice, according to a Goldman Sachs survey of 100 CIOs.
Amazon’s #1 challenge for 2020 is whether it can convince lots and lots of AWS customers to cut over to AWS from Oracle and its Autonomous Database.
Amazon has only its stellar performances of the past to blame for a Q3 growth rate of 35% to be seen as a potential cause for concern. And yet…
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