Cloud

AWS customers stamp on the brakes, eye contract renegotiations

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...

The Stack October 28, 2022

Extra $800m energy costs zap Microsoft earnings forecasts

Extra $800m energy costs zap Microsoft earnings forecasts

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...

Eliot Beer October 26, 2022

AWS and BlackBerry are playing the long game with "IVY"

AWS and BlackBerry are playing the long game with "IVY"

"Fundamentally undifferentiated heavy lifting" is not much of a sales pitch, but...

Edward Targett October 24, 2022

This Azure bug is a perfect CVSS 10, gives you control over K8s clusters

A critical vulnerability in an Azure tool that lets users manage Kubernetes clusters can be exploited remotely without authentication to gain administrative control over Kubernetes clusters, as well as Azure edge devices. The vulnerability, allocated a maximum possible CVSS (severity rating) score of 10 has been allocated CVE-2022-37968. It is...

The Stack October 12, 2022