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.
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The Analytics Insight piece...
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Microsoft is currently facing a significant class action lawsuit in the United Kingdom, alleging that the company has overcharged consumers and businesses for its software licenses since 2015. The legal action, spearheaded by barrister Alexander Wolfson, claims that Microsoft's pricing practices...
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In a surprising yet extremely vital disclosure, Amazon recently released Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) data for several of its AWS cloud regions, paving the way for a more transparent discussion on sustainability within the data center industry. This comes in tandem with existing data already...
The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has just announced a slight delay in releasing its much-anticipated provisional report on the cloud computing sector. Originally earmarked for publication in December 2024, the new date has been shifted to January 2025. While this might sound like...
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