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.
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AWS promises European sovereign cloud – doesn’t say when, skimps on details
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”
AWS’s S3 data replication falters in US-EAST-1 as hyperscaler tackles "backlog"
" our engineers have been focused on mitigating the impact of the delayed replication through changes made to replication subsystems, resource adjustments and other modifications"
AWS Systems Manager for SAP goes GA - Do you really want to do that?
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.
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AWS, Azure face cloud competition probe over concentration, data egress concerns
"High profitability, a concentrated market structure and limited levels of switching are likely indicators that cloud providers are not facing sufficiently strong competitive constraints."
Amazon swoops on AI hotshot Anthropic with $4 billion
AWS to replace Google Cloud as favoured compute platform and all future Anthropic models to be offered via Amazon Bedrock
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
AWS to charge for dwindling supply of IPv4 addresses
AWS says that starting February 2024 it will be charging customers to run public IPv4 addresses in an effort to encourage IPv6 migration
Amazon to UK regulator: “AWS does not charge ‘egress fees’”
You say "potato", I say sending data across a proprietary global network kept with an intentionally low network utilisation rate is not an act of charity...
"Plus ça change"? - Why did AWS Support fail with US-EAST-1 again?
AWS admitted that “customers may also have experienced issues when attempting to initiate a Call or Chat to AWS Support” during the incident. What happened to recent architectural changes designed to avoid this?