Cloud
IBM software is coming to AWS as SaaS. Is Big Blue giving up on its cloud?
Or just a healthy pragmatism?
Cloud
Geospatial data heads to the cloud -- but there’s a long way to go before blue skies
Satellite data infrastructure provider Ursa Space capped off a busy few months for the company today by announcing it had raised $16m in Series C funding from several big-name investors. Last November, meanwhile, the firm became an AWS Partner; then on 12 January Ursa Space said it was working with
ESG/ClimateTech
AWS's new carbon footprint tool criticised
Welcomed, but users damn it with faint praise...
Enterprise IT
ITarian blames AWS for Comodo service outages
"I'm in the middle of writing my own remote support tool. I'm sick of all these terrible providers..."
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Amazon says 40% of CapEx going to AWS - trims $1 billion by extending server life
AWS now a $71 billion business
Cloud
Thousands of AWS customers leaking data CIDR block scan reveals
"If you open a service to the world, at least use decent authorization and authentication"
Cybersecurity
AWS Glue vulnerability let security researchers take over the cloud service
Rapidly fixed and not exploited, but hair-raising nonetheless.
Enterprise IT
AWS admits support resilience issues, and vows architecture rebuild
"It really grinds my gears to hear AWS yammer on about cell-based deploys and minimizing blast radius..."
Cloud
Sweeping AWS outage blamed on "network device impairment"
"This issue is affecting the global console landing page, which is also hosted in US-EAST-1"
Cloud
AWS unveils a new mainframe modernisation toolkit at Re:Invent, but what's really new?
But where's the truly new stuff here?
Cloud
Goldman launches its very own "financial cloud"
AWS-powered cloud aims to boost front-office analytics tools, such as PlotTool Pro and Goldman's Python toolkit.
Cloud
Under pressure from Cloudflare's R2, Wasabi et al, AWS massively expands its free data transfer tier
Competition: it's good for everyone...