The time Animoto almost brought AWS to its knees Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Ron Miller - September 5, 20210 Today, Amazon Web Services is a mainstay in the cloud infrastructure services market, a $60 billion juggernaut of a business. But in 2008, it was still new, working to keep its head above water and handle growing demand for its cloud servers. In fact, 15 years ago last week, the
AWS offers free online training for cloud architects Data Breach by Steve Zurier - July 14, 20210 The Amazon Web Services (AWS) office in Houston, Texas. (Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Amazon Web Services this week launched a new free online training series on Twitch that aims to build up the skills of cloud developers. The new series, the AWS
Apple encrypts its iCloud data on Google, AWS clouds Data Breach by Steve Zurier - June 30, 20210 An Apple store in London. Apple had become Google’s largest customer of cloud data services. (Jon Rawlinson/CC BY 2.0) Reports Tuesday that Apple had become Google’s largest customer of cloud data services – and that the iCloud data was encrypted by Apple – was viewed as a positive development by some
AWS has acquired encrypted messaging service Wickr Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Carly Page - June 26, 20210 Amazon’s cloud services giant Amazon Web Services (AWS) is getting into the encrypted messaging business. The company has just announced that it has acquired secure communications service Wickr — a messaging app that has geared itself towards providing services to government and military groups and enterprises. It claims to be
Daily Crunch: With Wickr purchase, AWS enters the encrypted messaging business Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Richard Dal Porto - June 25, 20210 To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for June 25, 2021. We have a great block of startup news and Amazon coverage for you today. But before we get
AWS acquires encrypted comms platform Wickr to support shift to hybrid work environments Data Breach by Steve Zurier - June 25, 20210 A visitor checks in at the Amazon corporate headquarters in Seattle, Washington. (Photo by David Ryder/Getty Images) In a move that could bring some relief to organizations looking to secure their cloud migrations, Amazon Web Services on Friday announced that it had acquired Wickr, provider of secure end-to-end encryption and
Daily Crunch: AWS and Salesforce expand partnership to make cross-platform integrations easier Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Richard Dal Porto - June 24, 20210 To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for June 23, 2021. The value of leading cryptocurrencies has rebounded some in the last day or so. Congrats to the hodlrs
Salesforce, AWS announce extended partnership with further two-way integration Tech and Gaming Blog Technology by Ron Miller - June 23, 20210 Salesforce and AWS represent the two most successful cloud companies in their respective categories. Over the last few years the two cloud giants have had an evolving partnership. Today they announced plans for a new set of integration capabilities to make it easier to share data and build applications that
TeamTNT attacks IAM credentials of AWS and Google Cloud Data Breach by Steve Zurier - June 8, 20210 People walk past a Google Cloud exhibit during the press days at the 2019 IAA Frankfurt Auto Show on September 11, 2019 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. (Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) Researchers reported Friday that TeamTNT is using compromised AWS credentials to attack AWS cloud environments via the cloud platform’s
EU bodies’ use of US cloud services from AWS, Microsoft being probed by bloc’s privacy chief Cyber Security by Natasha Lomas - May 27, 20210 Europe’s lead data protection regulator has opened two investigations into EU institutions’ use of cloud services from U.S. cloud giants, Amazon and Microsoft, under so called Cloud II contracts inked earlier between European bodies, institutions and agencies and AWS and Microsoft. A separate investigation has also been opened into the European