Google’s latest round of cuts to its Cloud organization has targeted design and user‑experience roles and exposed a broader strategic pivot: as Google doubles down on AI and infrastructure, it is pruning teams that don’t fit the new operating model—leaving employees, customers and product...
Google’s recent announcements that fast-growing AI coding startups Lovable and Windsurf have added Google Cloud to their infrastructure mix are a clear, measurable sign that the cloud provider’s strategy to court early-stage AI founders is paying off — and that those startups are, in turn...
Ottawa’s recent disclosure that the federal government has spent nearly $1.3 billion on cloud services from U.S. providers since 2021 — with more than a billion of that directed to Microsoft and portions of that budget underpinning what the Department of National Defence calls “mission‑critical”...
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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...
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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...
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Cloud providers’ September previews from Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, and Google offer a powerful — and practical — glimpse of how enterprise expectations are reshaping cloud AI: companies are no longer buying raw model performance alone, they are demanding network isolation, auditability...
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...
Google Cloud’s surprise decision to waive certain multicloud data‑transfer fees across the European Union and the United Kingdom has the potential to rewire the commercial logic of cloud strategy in Europe, but it also exposes a complex web of technical, contractual, and regulatory questions...
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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.
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OpenAI’s long-running infrastructure romance with Microsoft has quietly shifted from exclusivity to pragmatic flexibility, and the implications reach far beyond two corporate balance sheets — they reshape how cloud capacity, regulatory risk, and enterprise resilience will play out as AI scales...
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...
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Google has announced a dramatic change to how it charges for cloud data movement in the European Union and United Kingdom, waiving fees for certain multicloud transfers through a new “Data Transfer Essentials” option that it says is available at no cost — a move timed to land just ahead of the...
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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...
Google Cloud’s decision to waive multicloud data-transfer charges in the EU and UK — through a new “Data Transfer Essentials” option — has shifted a regulatory tug‑of‑war into a full commercial play, and it matters for every IT team wrestling with vendor lock‑in, migration economics, 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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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 —...
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...