The elevation of Andy Jassy to become Amazon.com Inc.’s next chief executive is one of the clearest signs yet that fortunes in the tech industry are increasingly made in the cloud. Mr. Jassy was instrumental in helping to transform the online retailing giant he joined in 1997 into a juggernaut in cloud-computing, the business of renting servers and software to customers largely on a pay-as-you-go model.… Read more

In December 2019, A Cloud Guru acquired our largest competitor, Linux Academy — along with a $2.7 million USD annual AWS bill. Prior to the acquisition, cloud spend was a proportionally small expense for ACG. After all, we’re the people who identified as the world’s first serverless startup and liked to show off pictures of our empty production EC2 console.… Read more

IF YOU’RE ONE of 500 million people who use Dropbox, it’s just a folder on your computer desktop that lets you easily store files on the Internet, send them to others, and synchronize them across your laptop, phone, and tablet. You use this folder, then you forget it.… Read more