by ezcloud | Aug 13, 2021 | Amazon, Amazon Web Services
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...
by ezcloud | Apr 28, 2020 | Amazon, General
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...
by ezcloud | Apr 27, 2020 | Amazon, Amazon Web Services
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,...
by ezcloud | Aug 30, 2019 | Amazon
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...
by ezcloud | Aug 20, 2019 | Amazon, General
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...
by ezcloud | Aug 20, 2019 | Amazon, General
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...
