by ezcloud | Jan 6, 2022 | Amazon, Amazon Web Services
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...
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 Web Services, Amazon
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...