Cloud
Amazon has released a new fully managed service called AWS SimSpace Weaver – designed to help customers create “dynamic, 3D experiments to understand possible real-world outcomes and visualize and train in immersive spaces” or conduct experiments that closely approximate real-world systems locally or in the cloud. By providing a dedicated compute
Neither profit, nor the other p-word; read on...
Aurora + Redshift + Spark...
Analysts expecting European cloud provider OVHcloud to haemorrhage customers in the wake of a devastating 2021 data centre fire or recent price hikes look away: The company reported a net revenue retention rate of 114% for its fiscal 2022 and has now clinched a €200 million credit facility from the
Microsoft has been warned that “Google and Oracle… will likely match and even exceed Azure’s capabilities on some dimensions in time” in Gartner’s 2022 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services.” AWS, meanwhile, “AWS often optimizes for the short term when dealing with customers.. This, along with
AWS customers are prioritising cutting their bills, Amazon executives confirmed on a Q3 earnings call – with growth falling back to a “mid-20%” rate towards the end of the quarter. That’s down from 37% in Q1. That figure has “ informed how we're thinking about the guidance ranges” heading
Rising energy costs will sting Microsoft for $800 million this financial year according to the firm, as it saw slightly slower growth of its Azure cloud business in its Q1 results. In its earnings call CFO Amy Hood noted Microsoft's energy costs will escalate throughout the year, saying
"Fundamentally undifferentiated heavy lifting" is not much of a sales pitch, but...