What company has the lowest IT spending budget in the world, but has also paradoxically spent more money than any company in history investing in creating a new, modern, cloud-native system that is capable of running just about any application at just about any necessary scale? …
The Graviton family of Arm server chips designed by the Annapurna Labs division of Amazon Web Services is arguably the highest volume Arm server chips the datacenter market today, and they have precisely one – and only one – customer. …
These are still early days for quantum computing, far too soon to talk about domain-specific quantum systems. …
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? …
While the interface has changed little over time, Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3) is anything but basic on the backend. …
Watching Amazon Web Services explode on the scene and grow to ginormous size has been a thing to behold. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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. …
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