Ofcom “particularly concerned” over practices of tech giants that dominate cloud market
U.K. regulator Ofcom has given its first indication that it’s preparing to refer the local cloud infrastructure services market for an in-depth investigation, with the practices of Amazon and Microsoft in particular firmly in focus. The news comes some six months after Ofcom first revealed it was kickstarting a market study into the £15 billion…
Amazon’s first foray into the world of accelerator programs, designed to help early-stage startups build and launch, was focused on conversational AI back in 2016. Now, seven years later, Amazon has another AI accelerator – this time led by Amazon Web Services with a focus on the newest zeitgeist: generative artificial intelligence. Announced today, AWS…
When Amazon announced it was laying off another 9,000 employees today, AWS employees were not exempt with Amazon CEO (and former AWS CEO) Andy Jassy announcing the cloud division would be included into today’s round. TechCrunch is hearing that around 10% of today’s total came from AWS. The company would not confirm those numbers, instead…
Amazon has announced yet another substantial round of layoffs, as the internet giant today revealed that a further 9,000 people are set to lose their jobs. In a memo published by CEO Andy Jassy this morning, the company said that the cuts will impact those in its AWS cloud unit, Twitch gaming division, advertising, and…
Vantage, a startup that helps businesses better understand their cloud infrastructure spend (and automate their savings), today announced that it has raised a $21 million Series A funding round led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from by Andreessen Horowitz, which led its seed round, as well as Harpoon Ventures, CloudFlare CEO and co-founder Matthew…
Chainlink, a web3 services platform, is launching a self-service, serverless platform to help developers connect their decentralized applications (dApps) or smart contracts to any Web 2.0 API, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. The new platform, Chainlink Functions, also lets builders run customizable computations on Web 2.0 APIs within minutes through its network, Kemal El Moujahid,…
Amazon has been working on ramping up how it works with telecoms carriers as customers and partners — an ambition pushed in no small part by slowing growth for cloud services overall at AWS and its big rivals Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. Now, one week ahead of MWC in Barcelona — one of the…
It’s essential to analyze the tools available before you decide on a cloud infrastructure provider to keep application maturity and running costs in check. Choosing a cloud infrastructure provider: A beginner’s guide by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch
Yesterday Amazon reported earnings with AWS growing a modest 20% for for the quarter over the prior year to $21 billion. But perhaps even more troubling, the company reported in the earnings call with analysts that growth dropped even further into the mid-teens for the first month of the new year, as the cloud continued…
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