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AWS Joins Google Cloud In Removing Egress Costs

Forrester IT

Last week, Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced plans to remove egress fees when migrating data to another cloud provider or on-premises. This announcement follows Google Cloud’s (GC’s) plans of ridding its egress fees, announced in January (leaving Microsoft Azure as the last major cloud provider without a zero egress fee policy).

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AWS plans to outspend Microsoft and Google on on AI infrastructure

Network World

Amazon Web Services (AWS) intends to invest $100 billion in ramping up infrastructure for AI cloud services this year, surpassing the spending plans of rivals Microsoft and Google. Amazons capital expenditure in the fourth quarter totaled $26.3

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Graviton progress: 50% of new AWS instances run on Amazon custom silicon

Network World

Half of all instances spun up on Amazon Web Services over the past two years used Graviton, Amazons custom silicon built on Arm processor technology, rather than x86 processors. Gravitons success could impact Ampere, which makes Arm-based processors for both the enterprise and the cloud.

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SolarWinds launches incident response tool, boosts AI in observability platform

Network World

The company also bolstered its SolarWinds Observability product with new integrations and support for cloud environments, including Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), and Microsoft Azure.

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Google offered complainant €470 million to maintain Microsoft antitrust probe: Report

Network World

Alphabet’s cloud computing division, Google Cloud, tried to sustain the European Union’s inquiry into Microsoft’s antitrust practices in the cloud computing sector by offering complainant Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) a package worth €470 million ($511 million), Bloomberg reported.

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More than one-third of cloud environments are critically exposed, says Tenable

Network World

Add in the fact that 23% of cloud identities on the major hyperscalers (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and Microsoft Azure), both human and non-human, have critical or high severity excessive permissions, and you have a recipe for disaster.

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Amazon claims to cut quantum computing timeline by 5 years with new Ocelot chip

Network World

Amazon Web Services has unveiled a new quantum computing chip, Ocelot , that the company claims could reduce error correction costs by up to 90% compared to traditional approaches. Right now, he says, Google seems to be in the lead, having made impressive progress toward scaling up quantum technology over the past year.

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