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Microsoft hit with more litigation accusing it of predatory pricing

CIO Business Intelligence

All UK businesses and organizations that bought licenses for Windows Server via Amazon’s AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and Alibaba Cloud may have been overcharged and will be represented in this new ‘opt-out’ collective action,” the law firm statement said. “I The lawsuit is seeking more than £1 billion (roughly US$1.3 Kimball asked.

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Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO Business Intelligence

Changes Microsoft made to its cloud licensing of Windows and application software to “make bringing workloads and licenses to partners’ clouds easier,” the company says, have drawn the ire of those cloud partners, some of whom have jointly filed an antitrust complaint in the European Union.

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Regulators sound out users on cloud services competition concerns

Network World

Factors such as egress fees — which service providers charge customers for extracting data from their cloud — and preliminary discounts might be contributing to vendor lock-in, regulators fear. Software licensing practices were not widely viewed, in isolation, as influencing the choice of public cloud provider.

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Turnkey AI option puts organizations in control

CIO Business Intelligence

The breakthroughs from cloud-based leaders such as OpenAI, Microsoft, Amazon Web Services, Google, and others are impressive, but their focus on outdoing each other and the huge investments needed to do so might be obscuring the more measured approach their customers prefer. 1 Foundry, AI Priorities Study 2025, [link]

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After reaching $40B in revenue in record time, Amazon Web Services hints at its own reinvention

GeekWire

Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy with a chart showing AWS revenue growth at the company’s virtual re:Invent conference this week. Amazon Web Services CEO Andy Jassy at AWS re:Invent this week, in front of a slide showing some of the company’s customers and partners. Screenshot via webcast). Amazon Photo).

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IBM and AWS forge global alliance, streamlining access to AI and hybrid cloud solutions

CIO Business Intelligence

Since AWS is the cloud infra leader with thousands of enterprises and many of them overlap with IBM and RedHat using their SaaS solutions. IBM’s highly-capable Watson AI platform and its RedHat open solutions, combined with AWS Cloud and Amazon Bedrock and IBM Consulting form a solid offering for enterprises.

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Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will return to Amazon Web Services as CEO, replacing Andy Jassy

GeekWire

Tableau CEO Adam Selipsky will join Amazon Web Services as its new CEO. Tableau Software CEO Adam Selipsky will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over as Amazon’s CEO later this year. GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop).