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Arpio’s announcement that its cloud-native disaster recovery platform now supports Microsoft Azure marks a clear acceleration in the vendor’s multi-cloud ambitions and gives enterprises a unified path to application-aware disaster recovery across both AWS and Azure environments. The company...

The long-running feud between John Donovan and Shell plc has re‑entered a modern, high‑stakes phase: an AI‑amplified “bot war” that has prompted renewed legal posturing from Shell, intensified public debate over corporate brand protection tactics, and raised new questions about how multinational...

OpenAI’s freshly announced, multi‑year infrastructure pact with Amazon — a headline-grabbing commitment worth roughly $38 billion — is more than a single vendor win: it completes OpenAI’s strategic shift from one dominant cloud partner to a diversified, multi‑hyperscaler compute architecture...

The freelance cloud market in 2026 is no longer an academic debate about features — it’s a cashflow calculation: which platform and specialism will deliver the best return on your time and risk? Background / Overview The basic split is familiar but sharpened: AWS continues to lead in sheer...

Amazon’s 2025 stumble looks less like a long-term problem and more like a reset: the company closed the year with renewed momentum in cloud computing, meaningful margin improvement in retail, and a string of infrastructure and customer deals that position it to be a stronger earnings story in...

Analysts are pointing to Amazon and Alphabet as two of the most resilient large-cap technology holdings heading into 2026, arguing that their scale, diversified revenue streams and heavy investments in AI infrastructure — including proprietary accelerators — give them defensive advantages in an...

AWS’ new managed Network Firewall proxy arrives as a pragmatic answer to a persistent problem: organizations tired of owning and operating large fleets of proxy servers can now offload proxy management while keeping the policy controls that matter for egress security. Background Amazon’s new...

Operational readiness for Windows Server 2019 on AWS EC2 is no longer optional — it’s the difference between a resilient, secure production service and a recurring operations crisis that drains budget and trust. This feature presents a practical, prioritized operational readiness checklist for...

Windows Server 2022 on AWS EC2 delivers familiar Windows enterprise capabilities inside Amazon’s elastic compute fabric, but building robust, performant, and cost‑efficient Windows architectures in the cloud requires more than lift‑and‑shift thinking — it demands an understanding of how compute...

Windows Server 2025 arriving on Amazon EC2 changes the calculus for many enterprises that still run heavy Windows workloads: the OS brings cloud-first security and performance features, and AWS provides ready-to-launch AMIs and integration points so organizations can move faster without...

The three hyperscalers — AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud — remain the dominant choices for businesses planning cloud deployments in 2026, but the decision today is less about a single winner and more about matching workloads, cost models, and operational discipline to a provider’s...

Amazon’s mix of e-commerce scale, a dominant cloud franchise, fast-growing advertising, and subscription cash flow is the central thesis behind a bullish call that the company “will soar in 2026,” but the argument works only if a few key growth engines continue to outperform and capital...

The European Commission has opened three coordinated market investigations under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), putting Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure squarely into Brussels’ regulatory crosshairs and testing whether the DMA — originally framed for consumer-facing platforms — can be...

AWS has introduced a practical, low-friction way to cut the licensing bill for Microsoft SQL Server Always On deployments on EC2 by automatically waiving the SQL Server License Included (LI) charge for passive standby nodes, potentially reducing HA costs by up to the range AWS advertises when...

OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman stunned markets and reshaped the cloud-compute map this week by moving decisively beyond a long era of Azure dependence and signing a headline-grabbing, multi-year cloud agreement with Amazon Web Services — a strategic shift that delivered distinctly positive news for...

Amazon Web Services suffered a broad regional outage early on October 20 that knocked dozens of widely used apps and platforms offline — from team collaboration tools and video calls to social apps, bank services and smart-home devices — with early evidence pointing to DNS-resolution problems...

Amazon Web Services has quietly stepped into the frontline of the enterprise AI agent race with Amazon Quick Suite, a new "agentic" workspace designed to pull together corporate data, automate repetitive tasks, and act as a virtual teammate for desk workers — all while under AWS’s security...

OpenAI and Anthropic now sit on the public stage while Microsoft and Amazon wage a quieter, higher‑stakes contest for the cloud and compute hegemony that will shape the AI decade ahead. Background: how we got here The current alignment — OpenAI with Microsoft and Anthropic with Amazon — is the...

Oracle’s sudden emergence as a credible AI cloud contender has shifted the conversation: a company long defined by databases is now pitching a bold, capital‑intensive roadmap that — if every assumption holds — could place Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) among the industry’s leaders for AI...

Caylent’s new AI-driven migration package lands squarely in the crossfire of a reshaped virtualization market, promising an output-based, pay-only-for-success model designed to pull VMware, Azure and GCP workloads into AWS while leaning on Amazon Bedrock and AWS migration services to speed...