Alibaba’s Cloud Intelligence unit has moved from a long-term strategic bet to the company’s most visible growth engine, delivering a 26% year-over-year revenue increase to RMB 33.4 billion in the most recent quarter and pushing AI-driven product revenues into sustained triple‑digit...
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Alibaba’s Cloud Intelligence business is no longer an experimental bet — it is the engine powering the company’s reacceleration, but sustaining that advantage will demand flawless execution across infrastructure, monetization and geopolitics.
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Alibaba reported that its Cloud...
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Amazon’s cloud story entered a new chapter this quarter: AWS reported roughly $30.8–$30.9 billion in revenue for Q2 2025 while launching a major, renewable‑powered infrastructure region in New Zealand—an investment AWS says will strengthen APAC presence, lower latency for local customers, and...
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Amazon’s cloud business is no longer the unambiguous growth engine it once was; recent quarters have exposed a gap between scale and momentum that has competitors seizing narrative advantage and enterprise mindshare.
Background: the claim that started this debate
The Analytics Insight piece...
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TD SYNNEX announced on August 27, 2025, that it has signed a new multi‑year Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to accelerate cloud and AI adoption across North America, Latin America and the Caribbean—an expanding, partner‑focused pact that promises joint...
Amazon’s Q2 results forced a recalibration: the cloud unit that once underwrote Amazon’s long-term bets is still massive, but its growth and margins are under pressure in an AI-driven market that increasingly rewards integrated, productized models over raw compute capacity. The data from Q2 —...
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Microsoft's Q2 results and the wave of new analyst targets have crystallized a central tension: the company’s AI and cloud fundamentals are powerful and accelerating, yet the market’s price expectations and margin realities send mixed signals about how fast that promise will convert into durable...
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TD SYNNEX’s newly announced Strategic Collaboration Agreement (SCA) with Amazon Web Services marks a major channel-level push to accelerate cloud migration, AI adoption, and Marketplace monetization across North America, Latin America and the Caribbean, with the distributor positioning its...
OpenAI’s highly anticipated corporate restructuring has been pushed off the immediate calendar as last‑ditch negotiations with Microsoft over API access, intellectual property (IP) rights and a disputed “AGI clause” remain unresolved, forcing a delay that could push the overhaul into next year...
For more than a decade, Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been the engine that transformed Amazon from an online retailer into one of the world’s most valuable and strategically diversified technology companies—and yet, the cloud computing race is no longer a straight sprint for raw scale. Recent...
The largest technology companies are weathering a volatile market not because the case for them is uncomplicated, but because the economics of artificial intelligence have tilted the strategic balance in their favor: giant, cash-rich platforms can underwrite the infrastructure, talent and...
The Web3 infrastructure story that has been quietly brewing for years reached a new inflection point this cycle: large cloud providers are no longer passive hosts for blockchain experiments — they are active strategic partners, builders, and gatekeepers whose technical choices and compliance...
SAP’s decision to host a flagship AI-enabled business application inside Amazon Web Services and Microsoft datacenters in Brazil marks a clear escalation of enterprise AI efforts — a move that combines SAP’s application footprint with hyperscaler scale and local data residency, while rewriting...
Title: Should .NET Developers Learn Azure or AWS in 2025?
By: [Your Name], Senior IT Reporter — WindowsForum.com
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Short answer: It depends. For .NET developers entrenched in Microsoft shops and regulated industries, Azure remains the most pragmatic first move. For those aiming for broad...
The five technology companies that now steer global digital transformation—Amazon, Google (Alphabet), Microsoft, Apple, and IBM—are not merely the biggest names on the cap table; they are the engines that power cloud infrastructure, enterprise AI, consumer-device ecosystems, and the earliest...
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Google Cloud’s strong showing in a recent South Africa–focused survey has renewed the debate about where enterprise cloud momentum is actually flowing, but the headline — that Google Cloud “beats” Azure and AWS — needs careful qualification and context before it’s treated as a global verdict...
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Chainlink’s recent price action and an unusually emphatic analyst narrative have thrust the oracle network back into the mainstream crypto debate, with some market commentators now arguing LINK is this cycle’s “most obvious” large‑cap crypto jackpot — a claim framed by a provocative comparison...
Amazon’s cloud engine is still humming, but the tempo has slowed: the company’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) unit reported mid‑teens growth in its most recent quarter while rivals logged dramatically higher expansion, a gap that spooked investors, sharpened questions about AWS’s AI strategy, and...
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Microsoft remains the dominant force in enterprise software and cloud, but the automated Benzinga competitor snapshot that circulated recently contains several numerical inconsistencies that merit correction — and a closer look at what the corrected figures mean for valuation, competitive...
The global infrastructure-as-a-service market surged again in 2024, with the three hyperscalers — Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud — together capturing roughly seven out of every ten dollars spent on cloud infrastructure, as enterprises pour capital into AI-optimized...