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Amazon customers are assessing "purchasing power... evaluating their technology and advertising spend.”
Microsoft has been warned that “Google and Oracle… will likely match and even exceed Azure’s capabilities on some dimensions in time” in Gartner’s 2022 Magic Quadrant for Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Services.” AWS, meanwhile, “AWS often optimizes for the short term when dealing with customers.. This, along with
AWS customers are prioritising cutting their bills, Amazon executives confirmed on a Q3 earnings call – with growth falling back to a “mid-20%” rate towards the end of the quarter. That’s down from 37% in Q1. That figure has “ informed how we're thinking about the guidance ranges” heading
The "vast majority" of government customers using UKCloud services have "already moved" onto alternatives a Cabinet Office spokesperson said as the homegrown cloud services company went into liquidation. "Those who remain on UKCloud will find alternative arrangements as soon as possible... "We do not
Rising energy costs will sting Microsoft for $800 million this financial year according to the firm, as it saw slightly slower growth of its Azure cloud business in its Q1 results. In its earnings call CFO Amy Hood noted Microsoft's energy costs will escalate throughout the year, saying
"Fundamentally undifferentiated heavy lifting" is not much of a sales pitch, but...
Customers being told GDPR disclosure unnecessary
A critical vulnerability in an Azure tool that lets users manage Kubernetes clusters can be exploited remotely without authentication to gain administrative control over Kubernetes clusters, as well as Azure edge devices. The vulnerability, allocated a maximum possible CVSS (severity rating) score of 10 has been allocated CVE-2022-37968. It is