Amazon Web Services

The rise of Big Tech has a lot of people concerned. But while the spread of misinformation and election interference has garnered most of the headlines, the real concern shared by governments and business leaders around the world is where our data is being stored. German Chancellor Angela Merkel...

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) shares are trading higher following confirmation the company has won $10 billion cloud computing contract from the Pentagon. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure Cloud (JEDI) contract will modernization the Pentagon and is meant to make its technology...

Big tech companies have found varying degrees of success with cloud services.  Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN), with its Amazon Web Services is often viewed as the pioneer in cloud computing. The online retail giant made a prudent decision when it decided to diversify into the cloud, an...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) posted mixed third-quarter results Thursday, with the e-commerce platform reporting earnings of $4.23 per share, missing a $4.60 Street estimate, and sales of $69.98 billion that beat a $68.79-billion estimate. The company reported a 4.5% operating margin in the...

Founded in 2012, Digital Ocean is a leading cloud service offering virtual private servers and managed databases. Initially primarily focused on small independent developers and hobbyists, the company is quickly adding products such as managed Kubernetes and databases such as PostgreSQL that seem...

Big tech faces new scrutiny from regulatory and government bodies as the Federal Trade Commission is taking a close look at Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ: FB)'s acquisition history. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve reportedly paid Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) a visit to examine its cloud business....

E-commerce giant Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) reported second-quarter results that fell short of expectations across multiple metrics. Amazon earned $5.22 per share in the quarter on revenue of $63.4 billion. This compares to the Street's expectations of $5.58 per share and $62.4 billion....

Who will be the military’s Jedi master? That’s not a metaphor: The U.S. Court of Federal Claims heard a case Wednesday that will play a part in determining which of the country’s largest cloud computing companies will get to build the future of military data handling; the Pentagon...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) confirmed there were connectivity issues due to AWS that have now been resolved, according to Reuters. In an update posted by Bleepingcomputer.com, Amazon's outage caused load time issues on Amazon.com and browsers experienced trouble connecting. Amazon...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) reported a notable beat on the profit line in its first-quarter results, although management's operating profit outlook for the second quarter fell short of expectations. Here is a summary of how some of the Street's top analysts reacted to the print. The...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) accelerated its profitability over the last few years, and one analyst suspects targeted efforts to improve retail margins will drive an impending inflection. The Rating KeyBanc Capital Markets analyst Edward Yruma upgraded Amazon from Sector Weight to Overweight...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) is more than just one of the world's largest retailers as it also operates one of the world's biggest software business and has exposure to a fast-growing and high-margin advertising business, according to Pivotal. The Analyst Pivotal Research Group's...

Big U.S. tech companies are facing increasing regulatory scrutiny for their size and influence in the American economy. New York University marketing professor Scott Galloway said on Monday that spinning-off its Amazon Web Services cloud business could be the perfect solution for Amazon.com, Inc. (...

Following Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMD)’s announcement surrounding the availability on both Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN)’s Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT)’s Azure, the company’s instance count is expected to accelerate, according...

Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) has been one of the hottest stocks in the market over the past several years, but the fun has been on pause for Amazon investors in the past month. Amazon's stock has tanked by 24 percent, but one analyst says the sell-off is an obvious buying opportunity. The...