Cloud

Apple to spend at least $1.5 billion on AWS over five years

Apple is spending more than $30 million a month on Amazon Web Services, CNBC reports. Citing people familiar with the arrangement, the publication adds that… Read More »

Google’s Curie cable completed, links US to Chile

Google’s private submarine cable, Curie, has landed in Valparaíso, Chile, as part of the company’s $47 billion infrastructure spend. The cable, the first primarily funded… Read More »

AWS opens Hong Kong cloud region

AWS has launched a new cloud region in Hong Kong, consisting of three availability zones – geographically distinct data center deployments. The cloud division said… Read More »

Over 540m Facebook records exposed on AWS servers, from third-party companies

The personal data of millions of Facebook users was left exposed on Amazon Web Services servers, harvested by third party companies that left the data… Read More »

Synergy: Data center hardware, software spending hits $150 billion in 2018

Cloud pushes spending to new heights. Synergy Research Group reports that worldwide spend on data center hardware and software grew by 17 percent in 2018,… Read More »

AWS plans edge location in Bogotá, Colombia

Amazon Web Services will launch an edge location in Bogotá, Colombia by the end of 2019 – its sixth in Latin America, but first outside… Read More »