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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...

Google Cloud’s blistering quarterly performance left rivals visibly sprinting to keep up, but the bigger story is an industry-wide acceleration driven by AI demand that’s reshaping how hyperscalers compete, sign contracts, and spend on infrastructure. In Q2 and the most recent fiscal quarters...

ProsperOps’ Autonomous Discount Management (ADM) is now generally available for Microsoft Azure via the Azure Marketplace, bringing the company’s algorithmic commitment‑management engine to Azure compute services and promising automated buys, sells, and portfolio reshaping of Reservations and...

Oracle’s recent AI wins are not just marketing copy — they’re reshaping how the company pitches cloud to enterprise buyers and investors, and they demand a sober re-evaluation of where Oracle sits in the cloud pecking order against Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud...

ProsperOps’s CloudX Award win this September marks a clear inflection point for FinOps: the vendor’s autonomous approach to commitment and workload orchestration has been recognized by the DevNetwork CloudX Awards, and the announcement crystallizes a broader industry shift from visibility and...

Amazon Web Services’ startups czar Jon Jones has left the company after roughly a year in the role, a departure that lands amid a broader wave of executive exits at AWS in 2025 and deepens scrutiny of the cloud giant’s ability to hold ground in the fiercely contested AI talent wars. Background /...

Nvidia’s quiet retreat from a direct cloud play marks a meaningful strategic pivot: DGX Cloud — once pitched as NVIDIA’s own AI supercomputer service for enterprises — is being repurposed largely as internal infrastructure, while the company leans into a marketplace model (DGX Cloud Lepton) that...

Amazon Web Services has lost Jon Jones, its vice president who ran the global startups and venture-capital outreach, in a move that crystallizes a wider 2025 pattern of executive churn and intensifying competition for AI talent across the cloud sector. Background / Overview Jon Jones joined AWS...

ProsperOps’s CloudX Award win cements a clear message to the market: FinOps automation has moved from a niche toolkit into mainstream cloud management, and vendors that can safely automate both rate and workload decisions will shape how enterprises control cloud spend going forward. Background /...

ProsperOps’s announcement that it won a 2025 CloudX Award in the Cloud Management category underscores how FinOps automation has moved from niche optimization tooling into the mainstream cloud infrastructure conversation, but the recognition also raises important questions about claims...

Microsoft has pushed a significant upgrade to Microsoft Sentinel’s User and Entity Behavior Analytics (UEBA), embedding AI-driven behavioral detection, broader cross‑cloud data ingestion, and dynamic baselining that together aim to surface subtle account compromise and insider risk while...

Nutanix’s recent announcement — republished by several outlets — that it was named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Distributed Hybrid Infrastructure is a noteworthy PR moment for the company and a useful opening to examine how the vendor’s product strategy and market positioning...

Google has moved the cloud market’s chess pieces with a tactical — and loudly publicised — concession: for customers in the European Union and the United Kingdom, Google Cloud will no longer charge data‑egress fees for qualifying “in‑parallel” multicloud transfers through a new offering called...

Google has moved to eliminate a key friction point for organisations running workloads across multiple cloud providers in Europe and the UK, announcing that its Data Transfer Essentials service will be available at no cost for customers processing workloads “in parallel” across two or more...