Microsoft
Microsoft promises HCI on EU clouds as it settles complaint – but AWS, Google, other critics lash out
"CISPE has given Microsoft the benefit of the doubt"
News
AWS brings anti-hallucination Guardrails to Bedrock, promises 'grounding' in reality
Cloud giant wants to make sure model responses are useful and founded on a firm foundation of enterprise data, rather than wild flights of fancy
ESG
Can AWS really reduce the carbon footprint of AI workloads by 99% or is it 'greenwashing'?
Cloud experts dig into claims that Amazon Web Services has pulled off the incredible feat of almost eliminating AI emissions by moving clients' workloads from on-premises infrastructure to its data centres
AI, CMA, competition
Google and AWS turn on Microsoft as UK competition watchdog probes cloud industry
Nothing to see here say rivals – except Microsoft’s licensing practices
AWS
Big Iron to Big Cloud? AWS builds out mainframe migration offering with application testing toolkit
On-demand pricing for AWS Mainframe Modernization Micro Focus Runtime using a M2.m6i.8xlarge instance clocks in at $88.80/hour, for what it's worth. Cheaper options are available.
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?
News
AWS’s new CEO started as an intern: Faces slowing growth, AI battle
Spitting feathers about an obsession with stochastic parrots? Matt Garman's view is likely to be customer-shaped.
Microsoft
Microsoft unleashes new Deputy CISOs, will tie leadership compensation to security
AWS’s CISO sniffs that “our security culture starts at the top”
AWS
An attacker could run you up a huge AWS bill just by sending rejected requests to an S3 bucket and there’s little you can do about it
AWS has promised action over “Denial of Wallet” risk
AWS
A $100 billion AWS and 5 key cloud takeaways from Amazon’s earnings
CapEx looks set to pass $60 billion
Kubernetes
AWS adds Kubernetes spending breakdown capabilities
"Traditional FinOps cost allocation (e.g. mapping costs of resources back to teams or projects) doesn’t work. You can’t simply allocate the cost of a resource, such as EC2 instance to a tag or label..."
AWS
AWS overhauls IAM control plane after vulnerability exposed users
Datadog suggests AWS Amplify users conduct "an audit of your roles and potential threat activity" after investigation.