by ezcloud | Mar 20, 2018 | Amazon Web Services, Amazon
Wired on AWS: In the first half of 2015, revenue from AWS jumped 65 percent and accounted for 7 percent of Amazon’s overall revenue—and 37 percent of its profits. Though they share some infrastructure, AWS and Amazon’s e-commerce and hardware businesses are very...
by ezcloud | Mar 20, 2018 | Amazon Web Services, Amazon
There are lots of stories about the formation of AWS, but this much we know: 10 years ago, Amazon Web Services, the cloud Infrastructure as a Service arm of Amazon.com, was launched with little fanfare as a side business for Amazon.com. Today, it’s a highly...
by ezcloud | Mar 20, 2018 | Amazon
Almost four years ago, the New York Times tech columnist Farhad Manjoo wrote about a strategy to keep all your technology future-proof in a rapidly evolving environment. His advice still holds up: Use Apple hardware for your smartphone and PC. Use Google...
by ezcloud | Sep 11, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, General
Amazon just announced how it’s changing Whole Foods–and at the same time provided our latest answer to the question: Just how powerful is Amazon, anyway? Because we already knew it’s powerful enough to dominate 43 percent of all online...
by ezcloud | Sep 11, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, General
New AWS software could help companies move on-premises applications to the public cloud. The initial product stemming from the AWS-VMware partnership could be delayed. Amazon Web Services is thinking about building software for corporate data centers as part of...
by ezcloud | Sep 11, 2017 | Amazon Web Services, General
The cloud computing market is dominated by some familiar names. Amazon’s cloud service is its most profitable unit. Microsoft has pegged its future to its cloud computing businesses, leading to a very enthusiastic response from Wall Street....