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Canonical offers optimized Ubuntu Pro images on AWS
Ubuntu Linux is already the most popular cloud operating system on Amazon Web Services Inc.’s cloud, but Canonical Ltd., the company that develops it, is hoping to extend its dominance by offering “premium” Ubuntu Pro Linux images to AWS users. The new Ubuntu Pro images are supported on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and cover ...
Slack beats earnings expectations and raises its full-year forecast
Workplace collaboration platform provider Slack Technologies Inc. managed to recover a little impetus today after delivering strong third-quarter financial results that beat expectations on both earnings and revenue, sending its share price up 2% in after-hours trading. The company reported a loss before certain costs such as stock compensation of 2 cents per share on ...
AWS teams up with consultant Slalom to help businesses migrate to its cloud
Amazon Web Services Inc. wants to help educate businesses on how to go about migrating to its public cloud infrastructure, and it’s tapping the expertise of technology consultancy firm Slalom LLC to aid it in that endeavor. The plan, announced today, is to launch three “joint AWS | Slalom Launch Centers” in Atlanta, Chicago and ...
With S3 Access Points, Amazon aims to make it easy to manage shared data
Amazon Web Services Inc. today introduced a new service called Amazon S3 Access Points that lets customers manage shared datasets. The service, announced at the annual re:Invent conference held by Amazon.com Inc.’s cloud computing company, allows users to customize access permission rules for each application. That’s intended to help simplify the management of data access ...
Sundar Pichai takes over as Alphabet CEO as Larry Page and Sergey Brin step down
Google LLC co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin today handed over control of parent company Alphabet Inc. to current Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai. Page and Brin will remain as Alphabet employees and retain their seats on its board of directors, but will no longer oversee its day-to-day operations, they said. The pair made the ...
Amazon goes wide, using 5G and Outposts to bring ultra-low latency to network edge
Amazon Web Services Inc. is looking to expand its cloud to the network edge with a new service called AWS Wavelength. Wavelength makes AWS’ compute and storage services available at the edge of next-generation 5G cellular networks, enabling developers to build a new breed of apps that require low latency, such as machine learning inference at the edge. ...
MongoDB Atlas adds more features for AWS users
Database company MongoDB Inc. today added more features and more security to its MongoDB Atlas service for Amazon Web Services Inc. users. MongoDB Atlas is a fully managed cloud version of the company’s popular NoSQL database launched in 2016. It’s meant to eliminate most of the heavy lifting involved in getting the database up and running. ...
Rackspace adds new Service Blocks to help customers get started on AWS
Managed cloud services provider Rackspace Inc. is offering three new “Service Blocks patterns” for Amazon Web Services Inc. customers today, helping them shift more complex workloads to AWS infrastructure. Rackspace’s Service Blocks are essentially packages of services tailored to address specific cloud use cases. They’re designed for customers that lack the expertise needed to get ...
TigerGraph enhances its cloud-based graph database for AI workloads
Graph database startup TigerGraph Inc. is adding more features and functionality to the cloud-native version of its popular product. Launched in September, TigerGraph Cloud is a cloud-hosted graph database-as-a-service. Graph databases are a type of NoSQL database that represent data as connected objects rather than in rows and columns. Connections can be traversed quickly to ...
Snowflake launches Private Data Exchange service for secure info sharing
Cloud data warehouse company Snowflake Computing Inc. is launching a Private Data Exchange service that will act as a centrally and internally managed data hub for customers that need a way to privately share data sets between specific users. The new offering builds upon the original Snowflake Data Exchange that was announced in June. Data ...