Alibaba Cloud’s Yitian 710 processor is the most efficient Arm-based server processor for database tasks in hyperscale cloud environments around today, new research has claimed. A recent study published in the Transactions on Cloud Computing journal by IEEE found the 128-core processor, developed in 2021, not only trumps rival Arm-based chips, but is reported to […]
To call Amazon an e-commerce giant would be an accurate description — but an incomplete one. The company does far more than just sell stuff online. It also produces original video content, sells advertising, and provides shipping and logistics services, among other things. But its most important “other” business is undoubtedly its cloud-computing platform, Amazon […]
Nvidia and Amazon Web Services, the lucrative cloud arm of Amazon, have a surprising amount in common. For starters, their core businesses emerged from a happy accident. For AWS, it was realizing that it could sell the internal services — storage, compute and memory — that it had created for itself in-house. For Nvidia, it […]
TOKYO (Reuters) -Amazon Web Services (AWS) said on Friday it plans to invest 2.26 trillion yen ($15.24 billion) in Japan by 2027 to expand cloud computing infrastructure that serves as a backbone for artificial technology (AI) services. The Amazon.com unit is spending to expand facilities in the metropolises of Tokyo and Osaka to meet growing […]