AWS

From Sun Ray, to Fire: With its WorkSpaces Thin Client, can AWS make DaaS hot again?

A longer "lookback" period of utilisation history, centralised cost savings hub and more. But don't rely on it alone...

"Unfortunately, the size of an existing EBS volume cannot be decreased. Instead, it is possible to create a smaller volume and move the data using tools such as rsync, at the cost of pausing the system’s write operations during the migration..."

“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.

Announcement leaves AWS lagging Azure and OCI - with Oracle already running sovereign infrastructure in Frankfurt and Madrid with “no backbone network connection to other cloud regions”

" our engineers have been focused on mitigating the impact of the delayed replication through changes made to replication subsystems, resource adjustments and other modifications"

Enterprises running – or looking to run – SAP HANA in the cloud have got an improved proposition from AWS, with AWS Systems Manager for SAP generally available (GA) this week and offering new capabilities to operate, manage, and backup SAP applications on AWS more efficiently. AWS Systems Manager for SAP is

"High profitability, a concentrated market structure and limited levels of switching are likely indicators that cloud providers are not facing sufficiently strong competitive constraints."

AWS to replace Google Cloud as favoured compute platform and all future Anthropic models to be offered via Amazon Bedrock