Compute
Why Amazon Might Become the Largest Quantum Consumer
These are still early days for quantum computing, far too soon to talk about domain-specific quantum systems. …
Amazon
Cloud
The AWS Printing Press Keeps Spitting Out Money
What is the difference between a row of servers at one of the 80 availability zones in 25 geographic regions run by Amazon Web Services and a printing press at one of the four facilities run by the US Mint? …
Cloud
Amazon CTO on Past, Present, Future of S3
While the interface has changed little over time, Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is anything but basic on the backend. …
Cloud
Even The World’s Largest Multiuser System Has Its Financial Limits
Watching Amazon Web Services explode on the scene and grow to ginormous size has been a thing to behold. …
Compute
Hope Springs Eternal For Arm Servers
IT organizations are funny creatures, indeed. On the one paw, they are eternally optimistic about the prospects for new technologies, and on the other paw, they are extremely resistant to change because of the economic and technical risks that change requires. …
Cloud
The Growing Dependence Of VMware On AWS
Four years ago, VMware and Amazon Web Services announced a partnership in which VMware customers would be able to run their virtualized data center environments on AWS instances. …
Cloud
AWS Weathers The Coronavirus Storm
With much of the world in lockdown because of the coronavirus pandemic, it is not a surprise that much of the attention that is being paid to Amazon’s financial results for the first quarter of 2020 focused on its online retail operation, which is literally a lifeline to many in the United States, and the massive warehousing and shipping infrastructure behind it. …
Store
The Jellyfish-Inspired Database Under AWS Block Storage
If you want inspiration for a hyperscale, resilient distributed block storage service, apparently a jellyfish is a good place to start looking for architectural features. …
Compute
Vertical Integration Is Eating The Datacenter, Part Three
We have been making the case in this three part series that vertical integration is becoming more popular in modern datacenters. …
Cloud
AWS Invests In Iron And People To Court Enterprises
In the early years of Amazon Web Services, the collection of compute, storage, networking, and platform services (database, analytics, and such) were so good that Amazon, its parent company, did not have to spend a lot of money on sales and marketing to get startups to flock in droves to this public cloud to use it as their computing platform. …