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In the high-stakes world of cloud computing, Amazon.com AMZN and Oracle ORCL represent contrasting approaches to capturing ...

Amazon created the cloud-computing industry back in 2006 when it launched Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help speed up the infrastructure development it had started doing for partners and affiliates.

I believe the level of capital investments in the quarter indicates Amazon’s commitment to growing its data center footprint to support demand for cloud computing and AI. Management made clear ...

Amazon’s first-quarter results showed a slower pace of growth in its AWS cloud computing business, compared to expectations and to recent gains reported by competitors. CNBC reported that AWS’s ...

The company sees quantum as the next major growth area for its cloud services. "There's a … strong business case for AWS or Amazon to get involved with quantum computing," Oskar Painter, director of ...

Having grown steadily, AWS is a frontrunner to other cloud computing platforms such as competitor Microsoft Azure. So what is AWS, and why is it so lucrative and successful for Amazon? As the lead ...

The pressure is on Amazon.com to deliver on lofty expectations for cloud computing in its fourth-quarter results on Thursday, after Microsoft and Google's lackluster reports jolted investor ...