IaaS

AWS acquires DuckLabs, but what does it want from the team behind DuckDB?

AWS could use DuckLabs’ expertise to embed DuckDB more deeply into its data stack, but analysts say the project’s center of gravity may increasingly shift toward the cloud provider.

The tug-of-war between AI and traditional cloud services

The AI revenue surge is impressive, but enterprise IT still relies on the core services that made the public cloud valuable in the first place. Providers would do well to remember.

I've built data pipelines on AWS, Azure and Snowflake. Here's what Palantir Foundry did that surprised me

A senior data engineer's honest first impressions after a Palantir Foundry bootcamp, including what it does better, what it does not and whether the cost makes sense for your organization.

Microsoft almost gave away the keys to everyone’s Azure Cosmos DBs

Microsoft spent eight months fixing a cloud database bug uncovered by Wiz.

Consumption-Based Infrastructure On Your Terms

Reselling unused cloud instances is no longer easy

When a client overpaid for AI compute and then had nowhere to resell it, I realized the cloud resale market had quietly disappeared.

Can Meta really compete in the cloud business?

Running cloud infrastructure and AI systems for paying customers is much harder than running them for yourself. And the competition is fierce.