Cloud
Partners? Larry Ellison is ready to kiss and make up with AWS
Oracle has announced a major new partnership with Google Cloud that brings its Database inside GCP. Is AWS next?
AWS
A $100 billion AWS and 5 key cloud takeaways from Amazon’s earnings
CapEx looks set to pass $60 billion
AWS
Amazon’s “Rufus” shows it eating its own AI dogfood, as AWS closes in on $100B run rate; Q comes to Glue
"You can ask Amazon Q for Data Integration to ‘read JSON files from S3, join on ‘accountid’, and load into DynamoDB’ and in response, it will return an end-to-end data integration job that can perform that action"
Amazon
AWS launches AI assistant “Amazon Q”, offers fine tuning for models on Bedrock
"Administrators can also configure allowed topics and blocked topics and words so that the responses are controlled. In addition, administrators can enable or disable the upload file feature for their end users..."
AWS
Andy Jassy on AWS’s slowdown and AI’s “three layers”
“It's not all customers deciding to shut down workloads” says Amazon's CEO as cloud growth drops to 12% -- with the company saying customers are recognising that AI costs can also spiral.
AWS
Amazon says AWS users are focused on 'optimising' as growth is sluggish
AWS growth was uncharacteristically slow this quarter as customers remain focused on optimising their current setups, but execs believe that help could be on the was as more companies look to integrate its AI tools
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Opinion: The Big Hallucination
People are too credulous about AI outputs, and it’s about to get even more complicated.
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AWS generated Amazon $80.1 billion in 2022 but the wheels are wobbling as profits slump
"We're trying to build a set of relationships in business that outlast all of us"
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Amazon to sack 18,000; taps $8bn loan. CEO Jassy: “We’ll be scrappy”
Amazon is cutting over 18,000 jobs, CEO Andy Jassy has confirmed – saying he was pressed into revealing the news before contacting employees “as one of our teammates leaked this information externally.” The majority of the 18,000 Amazon job cuts will be concentrated in Amazon Stores and HR, including
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Amazon to lay off 10,000: Reports
Amazon customers are assessing "purchasing power... evaluating their technology and advertising spend.”
Cloud
Google Cloud losses slump to $858 million
Wasn't cloud meant to be a cash machine? Alphabet executives say they're unconcerned...
Enterprise IT
More than a gimmick? Alphabet's Wing makes record 50k drone deliveries in Q1
Wing now delivers in Texas, Virginia, Finland and Australia - but not the UK.