Amazon cloud

  • How green is Amazon’s cloud?

    Report gives Amazon a ‘D’ for energy efficiency; Google gets a ‘B’ Amazon Web Services has been under fire in recent weeks from a group of activist customers who are calling for the company to be more transparent in its usage of renewable energy. In response, rather than divulge additional […]

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    Google, Microsoft play catch up to Amazon, add load balancing, auto-scaling to their clouds

    Cloud computing proving to be a piggy-back industry Google Wednesday rolled out load balancing features to its public cloud service, allowing customers to automatically scale up and down virtual machines to accommodate unexpected spikes in demand. The rollout comes just a few months after Microsoft improved its Azure cloud service […]