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Optimizing a multimillion-dollar cloud bill

August 13, 2021 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

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

Report: Amazon’s HQ2 Search Grew Out of Jeff Bezos’s Tesla Envy

April 28, 2020 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Getty Images Amazon’s doomed search for HQ2, its second headquarters, came about because Jeff Bezos was envious of the large incentive Elon Musk was able to command from Nevada for Tesla’s giant battery factory, a new report says. There’s a lesson there for every leader: Be careful of letting emotions, especially negative emotions, drive your business decisions.… Read more

The Epic Story of Dropbox’s Exodus From the Amazon Cloud Empire

April 27, 2020 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

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

Amazon plans to upskill 100,000 employees. Here’s what that means for the future of work

August 30, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Amazon’s announcement that it will invest US$700 million to retrain 100,000 employees—a third of its U.S. workforce—in new technologies is the latest reminder that the much-heralded future of work is well underway. Policy makers, analysts, and scholars trying to discern the retailer’s motives and objectives chalked it up to a public relations move or the natural result of a tight labor market.… Read more

Amazon Just Announced It Will Pay Employees $10,000 and 3-Months Salary to Quit and Do This Instead

August 20, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Amazon is breaking paradigms everywhere these days. They have competitors of all kinds reeling and are innovating on everything from retail store format to how a HQ location is selected. They’re at it again, announcing this week, of all things, a new program that incentivizes employees to quit their job.… Read more

A $3M gift to expand STEM talent

August 20, 2019 By ezcloud Leave a Comment

Seattle University announced today that Amazon has made a $3 million gift to the new Center for Science and Innovation. This gift supports the school’s commitment to increase access to computer science and STEM education, particularly for women and underrepresented minorities.… Read more