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After AWS and Google, Microsoft says it’s removing Azure ‘egress’ data transfer fees — but with caveats

After AWS and Google, Microsoft says it’s removing Azure ‘egress’ data transfer fees — but with caveats

Image Credits: Budrul Chukrut/SOPA Images/LightRocket / Getty Images Microsoft has revealed that it, too, will allow business customers to transfer data out of its Azure cloud infrastructure with no “egress fees” attached, following hot on the heels of similar moves by cloud rivals AWS and Google. While Microsoft positions the announcement as a voluntary pro-customer move, the fact that it was quietly revealed with little fanfare via a short blog post might suggest… Source link

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AWS follows Google in announcing unrestricted free data transfers to other cloud providers

AWS follows Google in announcing unrestricted free data transfers to other cloud providers

Image Credits: Noah Berger/Getty Images for Amazon Web Services Amazon’s cloud computing subsidiary AWS has revealed that it will allow customers to transfer their data out of its ecosystem with no so-called “egress fees” attached. The news follows some two months after Google announced similar plans, though in Google’s case as the third-biggest player in the public cloud triopoly after AWS and Microsoft, it was heavily incentivized to “lead by example” — if… Source link

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Yahoo Selects AWS Public Cloud for Ad Division

Yahoo Selects AWS Public Cloud for Ad Division

Yahoo is working with AWS as a preferred public cloud provider for its advertising technology business Yahoo Ad Tech. All Yahoo advertising technology workloads — including its media-buying and supply-side platforms, analytics, and identity solutions and products — are being switched from Yahoo on-premises data centers to AWS as part of an ongoing digital transformation strategy,  according to AWS last month. The goal is to reduce IT infrastructure costs, transform advertising… Source link

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Cloud tech played key role in COVID-19, but has more uses ahead: AWS exec

Cloud tech played key role in COVID-19, but has more uses ahead: AWS exec

The lack of real-time data in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, while frustrating, was not a new problem for the U.S. A similar issue existed during the 2009 flu pandemic a decade earlier — but it was worse. “The way you found out about school-aged kids dying in emergency rooms wasn’t from a surveillance system. It was the front page of the Boston Globe,” said Dr. Taha Kass-Hout. He would know. Kass-Hout had just joined the CDC, mid-outbreak, as director of Health Informatics Solutions… Source link

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AFour Technologies Acquired by ACL Digital, Yahoo Chooses AWS, More News

AFour Technologies Acquired by ACL Digital, Yahoo Chooses AWS, More News

ACL Digital acquires AFour Technologies, Yahoo selects AWS, more CX news. ACL Digital, an ALTEN group company, has announced that it acquired AFour Technologies, a software product engineering firm. In a statement, company officials said the acquisition of the AFour Technologies will enable ACL Digital to accelerate digital transformation. “This acquisition helps us expand and strengthen our deep digital product engineering capabilities across various verticals we operate,” Ramandeep Singh,… Source link

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Yahoo chooses AWS for its Ad Tech business

Yahoo chooses AWS for its Ad Tech business

Yahoo Ad Tech will migrate all of its advertising technology workloads, including its media-buying and supply-side platforms, analytics and identity solutions and products from its on-premises data centres to AWS. The migration is part of its ongoing digital transformation strategy to reduce IT infrastructure costs, transform its advertising business operations and develop more tailored and immersive solutions. “By harnessing the power of AWS, we’ll be able to move faster and give our… Source link

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Yahoo Selects AWS as Its Preferred Public Cloud Provider for Its Ad Tech Business

Yahoo Selects AWS as Its Preferred Public Cloud Provider for Its Ad Tech Business

Yahoo migrates its advertising tech infrastructure to the cloud, leveraging AWS’s industry-leading technologies to innovate digital experiences for leading brands and publishers LAS VEGAS, December 01, 2022–(BUSINESS WIRE)–At AWS re:Invent, Amazon Web Services (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), today announced that Yahoo has selected AWS as its preferred public cloud provider for its advertising technology business Yahoo Ad Tech. Building on its longtime relationship with… Source link

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ClearScale CEO: Why Customers Pick AWS Over Azure, Google

ClearScale CEO: Why Customers Pick AWS Over Azure, Google

Cloud News Mark Haranas September 27, 2022, 11:18 AM EDT “If you’re going to invest millions of dollars and pick a public cloud partner that you may use for the next 10 years or more, you want to pick the one that’s the strongest in the market, has the best technology, the best customer service, continued innovation and is… Source link

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Israel picks Amazon’s AWS, Google for flagship cloud project

Israel picks Amazon’s AWS, Google for flagship cloud project

The Amazon logo is seen at the Young Entrepreneurs fair in Paris, France, February 7, 2018. REUTERS/Charles Platiau Israel’s government chose Amazon Web Services (AWS) (AMZN.O) and Google for a more than $1 billion project to provide cloud services for the country’s public sector and military. Amazon and Google beat out Microsoft (MSFT.O), Oracle (ORCL.N) and IBM (IBM.N) in the tender for the four phase project known as “Nimbus”, the Finance Ministry said on Wednesday. They will establish… Source link

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