It’s tough to say that a $100 billion business finds itself at a critical juncture, but that’s the case with Amazon Web Services, the cloud arm of Amazon, […]
The market is forcing cloud vendors to relax data egress fees
In recent months, the big three cloud vendors — Amazon, Microsoft and Google — have relaxed their egress fees, which are a tax of sorts that the cloud […]
SpaceX looks to scale astronaut launch capacity with second Florida pad
SpaceX is in the final stages of certifying a second pad for astronaut launches, which should ease launch site congestion and help the company scale the number of […]
After AWS and Google, Microsoft says it’s removing Azure ‘egress’ data transfer fees — but with caveats
Microsoft has revealed that it too will allow business customers to transfer data out of its Azure cloud infrastructure with no so-called “egress fees” attached, following hot on […]
AWS follows Google in announcing unrestricted free data transfers to other cloud providers
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 […]
Ubicloud wants to build an open source alternative to AWS
Using the large cloud computing providers is convenient, but not exactly cheap. Ubicloud, a new startup founded by the team behind Citus Data, which Microsoft acquired in 2019, […]
Google says it’ll stop charging fees to transfer data out of Google Cloud
Google today announced that it’ll stop charging Google Cloud customers a fee to migrate their data to another cloud provider or on-premise datacenter, effective immediately. Customers using Google […]