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  • Cloudflare Outage Takes Out Hundreds of Sites

    Cloudflare Outage Takes Out Hundreds of Sites

    A major outage at content delivery network (CDN) Cloudflare has brought down some of the biggest sites on the web across a range of industries.

    At roughly 3:00 AM ET Tuesday morning, Cloudflare tweeted that they were aware of an issue impacting services. The issues impacted Discord, DoorDash, Fitbit, NordVPN, and Peloton, as well as crypto exchanges OKX and FTX.

    Cloudflare has fixed the issue and explained the outage was the result of a change made in an ongoing effort to improve the resilience of the company’s network. The outage impacted 19 of the company’s data centers.

    A change to the network configuration in those locations caused an outage which started at 06:27 UTC. At 06:58 UTC the first data center was brought back online and by 07:42 UTC all data centers were online and working correctly.

    The company apologized to its customers and assured them steps have been taken to ensure the issue wouldn’t happen again.

    We are deeply sorry for the disruption to our customers and to all the users who were unable to access Internet properties during the outage. We have already started working on the changes outlined above and will continue our diligence to ensure this cannot happen again.

  • Oracle’s Q4 Results Beat Expectations

    Oracle’s Q4 Results Beat Expectations

    Oracle has turned in another stellar quarter, beating Wall Street expectations on strong cloud infrastructure performance.

    Oracle’s total revenue came in at $11.8 billion, up 5% year-over-year. Net income came in at $3.2 billion, representing an earnings per share of $1.16. Interestingly, the company’s cloud infrastructure business was the big winner, growing some 39%.

    “We continued to improve our top line results again this quarter with total revenue growing 10% in constant currency,” said Oracle CEO, Safra Catz. “These consistent increases in our quarterly revenue growth rate typically have been driven by our market leading Fusion and NetSuite cloud applications. But this Q4, we also experienced a major increase in demand in our infrastructure cloud business—which grew 39% in constant currency. We believe that this revenue growth spike indicates that our infrastructure business has now entered a hyper-growth phase. Couple a high growth rate in our cloud infrastructure business with the newly acquired Cerner applications business—and Oracle finds itself in position to deliver stellar revenue growth over the next several quarters.”

    With Q4 results tallied, Oracle’s fiscal year 2022 saw a 5% increase in total revenue. Cloud services and license support revenue increased 5%, while cloud license and on-premise license review grew 9%.

    Similarly, fiscal year 2022 operating income came in at $10.9 billion, with an operating margin of 26%. Net income was $6.7 billion, with earnings per share of $2.41.

  • AWS Wants to ‘Completely Re-Imagine How the AWS Network Is Managed’

    AWS Wants to ‘Completely Re-Imagine How the AWS Network Is Managed’

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) appears prepped for a major overhaul of its service if a job posting is any indication.

    AWS is already the leading cloud provider in the world, but Microsoft and Google have been making major headway in recent years. AWS appears to be on the verge of something big, posting a job opening for a “Manager, Software Development, New Initiative.”

    The description of the role is what’s of particular note:

    AWS is looking for a software development manager to own a green-field network software project. We are launching an effort this year to completely re-imagine how the AWS network is managed. A key part of this project is building a suite of control plane services from the ground-up, which the network fabric teams will use to scale and manage the networks that they are ultimately responsible for. This role will own product definition, development, testing, and ultimately operation of these services, which are going to be critical to the growth of the AWS network, and Amazon as a whole.

    As this is a green-field project that is just getting started, many decisions are yet to be made, about not only the software components this role will own, but also around the overall customer experience. By joining this effort early in the definition phase, you have an opportunity to shape how one of the largest networks on the planet is going to be operated for at least the next decade.

    There’s little else to indicate what might be involved, but the post alone promises some big changes ahead.

  • Akamai’s Transformation to a Distributed Cloud Provider Nearly Complete

    Akamai’s Transformation to a Distributed Cloud Provider Nearly Complete

    Akamai, the company synonymous with content delivery networks (CDN), has been slowly transitioning to become the “world’s most distributed cloud services provider,” a transformation that is well on its way.

    Akamai is one of the leading CDN providers in the world, but the company has been diversifying and expanding into other categories. According to Protocol, the company’s most recent quarter saw its security and compute business combine to surpass its delivery revenue. More significantly, the company’s delivery revenue fell by 6%, while its security revenue increased 23% and its compute revenue grew by 32%.

    “Next year, security will be the largest of the three,” CEO Tom Leighton said in an interview with Protocol.

    “It won’t be the majority yet by itself, but it’ll be bigger than delivery and compute. Depends how fast compute grows, but that’s an enormous market, and who knows, maybe compute will be the largest in five years. It’ll be a tough fight with security for that crown, because those are both very fast-growing areas for Akamai.”

    Akamai has been working on this transition for some time, purchasing cloud provider Linode for $900 million in February 2022. When the acquisition was announced, Leighton specifically highlighted the role Linode would play in Akamai’s transformation as a driving motivation for the purchase.

    “Akamai has been a pioneer in the edge computing business for over 20 years, and today we are excited to begin a new chapter in our evolution by creating a unique cloud platform to build, run and secure applications from the cloud to the edge. This a big win for developers who will now be able to build applications on a platform that delivers unprecedented scale, reach, performance, reliability and security.”

  • Salesforce Launches Its NFT Platform

    Salesforce Launches Its NFT Platform

    Salesforce has launched its anticipated NFT platform as a pilot program, providing a way for customers to mint and sell NFTs.

    The NFT market has experienced explosive growth, with Bloomberg reporting the market topped $40 billion in 2021. Salesforce announced plans to establish an NFT marketplace in February, even dealing with employee backlash over the plans. The company has now launched its platform, Salesforce NFT Cloud as a pilot program.

    Salesforce touts its solution as providing a trusted way to launch NFTs.

    We are building security and trust into every layer of the NFT Cloud pilot, including audited smart contract templates to protect sellers and buyers; branded first-party marketplaces to provide controlled, secure checkout experiences; and fraud prevention tools to help keep your brand’s NFTs out of the hands of bots and bad actors.

    The company also says NFT Cloud will not support proof-of-work blockchains, instead applying its goal of delivering net zero solutions to NFT Cloud.

    In line with our net zero emissions commitment, and to help our customers reach or stay net zero, our NFT Cloud pilot will automatically calculate carbon emissions of blockchain options, and allow the user to offset the emissions through trusted, high-quality carbon credits. Beyond our direct impact, we are collaborating with organizations, such as the Crypto Climate Accord, to drive sustainability in the Web3 space.

    Salesforce has clearly taken the objections of its employees to heart, as environmental concerns and the “unregulated, highly speculative financial assets” were two of the biggest objections they had to the company’s plans.

  • Capital One Launches B2B Software Business

    Capital One Launches B2B Software Business

    Capital One is expanding into new markets, launching Capital One Software, an enterprise B2B software business.

    Capital One is already one of the leading companies in the US banking industry. The company has a long history of using the cloud to power growth and solve problems, and now it wants to leverage that experience to help its customers do the same with its Capital One Software.

    The new business’ first product is Capital One Slingshot, “a data management solution for customers of Snowflake, the Data Cloud company.” Slingshot is built on Capital One’s experience managing vast amounts of data, and will help customers scale their cloud data, automate governance, and manage costs.

    “As one of the first large enterprises to go all-in on the public cloud, Capital One has pioneered the adoption of modern data and cloud capabilities. We’ve solved technology challenges faced by America’s largest enterprises and increased our speed and agility in delivering breakthrough products and experiences for customers. We recognize that many other businesses are facing similar data management needs as they accelerate their cloud and data journeys, so bringing some of the tools we’ve built and scaled to market as enterprise B2B software solutions is a natural evolution for us,” said Ravi Raghu, Executive Vice President, Head of Capital One Software. “Starting with the launch of Capital One Slingshot, Capital One Software will offer proven solutions that have been battle-tested by one of the nation’s largest enterprises serving more than 100 million customers.”

  • Broadcom and VMware Reach Deal for $61 Billion

    Broadcom and VMware Reach Deal for $61 Billion

    Broadcom has reached a deal to acquire VWmare for $61 billion in one of the biggest tech acquisitions in history.

    News broke Sunday that Broadcom and VMware were in talks for the former to purchase the latter. At the time, there was no indication of a possible price or the terms of a potential deal. According to CNBC, the a deal has been struck for $61 billion in a cash-and-stock transaction.

    The deal would be the third-largest tech deal, behind Microsoft’s pending deal for Activision Blizzard at $69 billion and Dell’s purchase of EMC for $67 billion, and help Broadcom continue its diversification efforts.

    Broadcom is well known as one of the leading semiconductor manufacturers in the world, with its chips used in a wide array of products, such as smartphones, networking equipment, and more. The company has increasingly been moving into the enterprise software market, an unsurprising move given the volatility of the semiconductor market and the shortages it has been experiencing.

    It remains to be seen if the deal will pass regulators. Broadcom is well known for using acquisitions to help it grow, but its deals haven’t always been approved. In late 2017, the company made an attempt to acquire Qualcomm, in a bid the latter company rejected. Broadcom then tried to move forward in a hostile takeover attempt that was blocked by the US.

    Nonetheless, if the deal should go through, it will make Broadcom a major player in the virtualization and cloud market.

  • AMD and Google Cloud Deliver EPYC-Based Confidential Computing

    AMD and Google Cloud Deliver EPYC-Based Confidential Computing

    AMD and Google Cloud are expanding their partnership, applying the power of EPYC processors to confidential computing.

    Confidential computing is a vital aspect of cloud security, helping to secure data while it’s being used. The technology keeps the data sequestered within the a protected enclave of the CPU, with only authorized programs cleared to access it. AMD and Google Cloud have unveiled new confidential computing virtual machines (VMs) powered by AMD’s EPYC processors.

    “AMD has worked collaboratively with Google Cloud and Google’s security experts to provide customers access to advanced security technology while still achieving high performance in their workloads,” said Lynn Comp, corporate vice president, Cloud Business Unit, AMD. “With 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors powering the new confidential computing offerings from Google Cloud, customers can continue to enjoy the general purpose and compute optimized workload capabilities they’ve had from Google Cloud, all while feeling confident in the security of their data.”

    “By providing our customers with advanced security technology from 3rd Gen AMD EPYC processors, we’re not only delivering more performance, but also optimizing Confidential Computing for more types of workloads,” said Nelly Porter, Group Product Manager, Google Cloud. “At Google Cloud, we believe that continuously investing in emerging technologies like Confidential Computing with partners like AMD will help us address our customers’ most pressing privacy concerns.”

    The news is a big win for AMD as the company continues to eat into Intel’s lead in the server market. After three years of gains, AMD’s share recently came in at 11.6%, driven largely by the success of its EPYC line.

    AMD says the new confidential computing VMs are available in regions around the globe.

  • Microsoft Making Changes to Level Cloud Computing Playing Field

    Microsoft Making Changes to Level Cloud Computing Playing Field

    Microsoft has announced it is making changes to level the playing field for cloud computing rivals following concerns that led to an EU complaint.

    Microsoft is currently in second place in the cloud market, behind rival AWS. The company has a major advantage over rivals in the form of its operating system and business apps, giving it the ability to offer an end-to-end solution. Smaller rivals in the EU have accused the company of using that advantage, prompting Microsoft to announce changes to its policies.

    Microsoft’s rivals say it costs the company’s customers more to license Office and other products when they opt for a third-party solution instead of Microsoft Azure. According to Reuters, company president Brad Smith says Microsoft is changing its licensing deals to make it easier for smaller rivals to compete effectively.

    Microsoft’s history of legal issues over anti-competitive behavior seems fresh in the company’s mind, with Smith referencing its “extraordinary defeat” in its case against the EU’s antitrust regulators in 2007. It appears that incident is helping shape the company’s current, more cooperative policies.

    “It really starts by giving more options to European cloud providers. So if there’s a company that has a data center but wants to run solutions in its cloud PBX data center, we’re creating more options for them to do so with our software, because that’s what they’ve been asking for,” he said.

  • IBM and AWS Collaborate to Deliver IBM Software as-a-Service

    IBM and AWS Collaborate to Deliver IBM Software as-a-Service

    IBM and AWS have signed a collaboration agreement to provide IBM’s significant software catalog as Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) on AWS.

    AWS is the leading cloud provider in the world and, while not cracking the top three, IBM is nonetheless a significant player. The company recently announced its intentions to split, with the core of the company focused on hybrid cloud offerings. While they may be competitors, that isn’t stopping the two companies from working together to provide IBM’s breath of software and tools on the AWS platform.

    The agreement will cover IBM’s software for AI, automation, data, security, and sustainable capabilities. The solution is cloud-native on AWS, and is built on Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA).

    The two companies have also agreed to work together on “a broad range of joint investments,” all with the goal of making it easier for customers to use IBM solutions on AWS.

    “As hybrid cloud continues to become the reality for our clients, IBM is ready and willing to meet them with a flexible and cloud-native software portfolio wherever they are in the cloud or in data centers,” said Tom Rosamilia, Senior Vice President, IBM Software. “By deepening our collaboration with AWS, we’re taking another major step in giving organizations the ability to choose the hybrid cloud model that works best for their own needs and workloads, freeing them up to instead focus on solving their most pressing business challenges.”

    “Our collaboration with IBM allows joint customers to accelerate their modernization to the cloud and consume IBM services in a cloud native manner on AWS,” said Matt Garman, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at AWS. “Through our multiyear agreement, AWS will work with IBM to offer a broad array of IBM Software as SaaS on AWS. In addition, we’ll be working together on stronger joint marketing and co-selling programs for customers.”

  • Google Cloud Makes Major Play to Be THE Web3 Cloud Provider

    Google Cloud Makes Major Play to Be THE Web3 Cloud Provider

    Google Cloud is working to become THE cloud provider for Web3 developers and apps, forming a team dedicated to Web3.

    Web3 is the next major evolution of the web, and heavily relies on blockchain technology to improve security, privacy, and decentralization. Google clearly sees the potential, forming a new team focused on supporting Web3 developers, according to CNBC.

    Amit Zavery, a vice president at Google Cloud, wrote an email to employees outlining the company’s plans:

    “While the world is still early in its embrace of Web3, it is a market that is already demonstrating tremendous potential with many customers asking us to increase our support for Web3 and Crypto related technologies,” he wrote.

    In a statement to CNBC, Zavery clarified that Google wasn’t interested in getting on the cryptocurrency bandwagon specifically, but is more interested in supporting blockchain technologies.

    “We’re not trying to be part of that cryptocurrency wave directly. We’re providing technologies for companies to use and take advantage of the distributed nature of Web3 in their current businesses and enterprises.”

    Google is currently in third place in the cloud market, behind AWS and Microsoft, although the company has a reputation for being popular among developers. Appealing to Web3 developers and establishing itself as their first option could be the company’s ticket to increasing its market share.

  • AWS Survives Review Process to Win NSA Contract

    AWS Survives Review Process to Win NSA Contract

    AWS has won a major contract with the National Security Agency (NSA), after the contract award came under review.

    AWS was awarded a $10 billion contract with the NSA, but Microsoft immediately challenged the award, much as AWS had challenged Microsoft winning a major contract with the Department of Defense. According to FedScoop, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) instructed the NSA to review the bid after concerns in how Microsoft’s bid was evaluated. Despite the review, the NSA has once again awarded AWS the win.

    “NSA recently awarded a contract to Amazon Web Services that delivers cloud computing services to support the Agency’s mission,” said an NSA spokesperson. “This contract is a continuation of NSA’s Hybrid Compute Initiative to modernize and address the robust processing and analytical requirements of the Agency.”

    “We’re honored that after thorough review, the NSA selected AWS as the cloud provider for the Hybrid Compute Initiative, and we’re ready to help deliver this critical national security capability,” said an AWS spokesperson.

  • Microsoft Takes Page From Rivals, Targeting ‘Holdout’ Businesses For Cloud Services

    Microsoft Takes Page From Rivals, Targeting ‘Holdout’ Businesses For Cloud Services

    Microsoft is taking a page from rivals in a bid to expand its cloud business, targeting “holdout” businesses that have yet to migrate to the cloud.

    Microsoft is currently in second-place in the cloud market, behind AWS and ahead of Google Cloud. The company is taking a more hands-on approach, according to The Information (by way of Seeking Alpha), investing $200 million to establish an acquisition team that will work to bring cloud holdouts onboard.

    The strategy is similar that employed by Amazon, Salesforce, and Zoom. Microsoft evidently wants to proactively go after these holdout companies in an effort to sew up their business before the company’s rivals do.

    Microsoft already has a major advantage over some other companies, thanks to its ecosystem of software and services that goes back decades. Emulating strategies that other successful companies have been using should help the Redmond giant even more, and may aid it in its efforts to close in on AWS.

  • Oracle Releases Massive April 2022 Critical Patch Update

    Oracle Releases Massive April 2022 Critical Patch Update

    Oracle has released a major April 2022 Critical Patch Update, fixing a whopping 520 issues.

    Oracle regularly releases updates to its software and service. This update, however, is a large one, containing hundreds of fixes. The update also slightly changes the quarterly release schedule, making it easier to plan for future updates

    “With this Critical Patch Update release, Oracle is making a small adjustment to the Critical Patch Update release schedule,” Eric Maurise, Vice President of Security Assurance, wrote in a blog post. “Critical Patch Updates will no longer be released on the Tuesday closest to the 17th of the month of January, April, July, and October, but they will be released on the third Tuesday of January, April, July, and October. This minor adjustment will not affect the frequency of Critical Patch Update releases (still 4 times a year), but essentially, makes it easier to set calendar reminders and determine the date of future Critical Patch Update releases.”

  • IBM’s Hybrid Cloud Strategy Pays Off in Latest Quarterly Results

    IBM’s Hybrid Cloud Strategy Pays Off in Latest Quarterly Results

    IBM has released its latest quarterly results, lending support to the company’s efforts to pivot to a hybrid cloud provider.

    IBM announced in 2020 it planned to split into two companies, spinning off its legacy hardware business, with the core company focusing on hybrid cloud solutions. The company has since been on a spending spree, buying up smaller companies to help round out its offerings.

    The company’s strategy appears to be paying off, if its latest quarterly results are any indication.

    “Demand for hybrid cloud and AI drove growth in both Software and Consulting in the first quarter. Today we’re a more focused business and our results reflect the execution of our strategy,” said Arvind Krishna, IBM chairman and chief executive officer. “We are off to a solid start for the year, and we now see revenue growth for 2022 at the high end of our model.”

    The company reported revenue of $14.2 billion, up 8%. Software revenue was up 12% and consulting revenue was up 13%, while infrastructure revenue was down 2%. Hybrid cloud revenue, however, was up 14%, coming in at $5 billion.

    “In the first quarter we continued to strengthen the fundamentals of our business, consistent with our medium-term model,” said James Kavanaugh, IBM senior vice president and chief financial officer. “We are a faster growing, more profitable company with a higher-value business mix, a significant recurring revenue base and strong cash generation.”

  • AWS Scores Australian Government Cloud Contract Renewal

    AWS Scores Australian Government Cloud Contract Renewal

    AWS has secured an renewal of its whole-of-government cloud deal with the Australian government, extending the contract by three years.

    AWS initially signed its cloud contract agreement with the Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) in 2019. The contract provides AWS services to federal, state, and territorial departments, agencies, public universities, and government-controlled companies.

    The new agreement builds on the previous one, extending the company’s commitment to Australia’s public sector.

    Under the enhanced agreement, which will start on May 1, 2022, AWS’s public sector customers continue to receive the benefits of the Whole-of Government Agreement via the DTA, or they can choose to purchase directly from AWS or through authorised partners on the AWS Partner Network. This will ensure our public sector customers in Australia will maintain easy access to our reliable and secure cloud services as well as provide greater choice in how they procure them.

    The contract is valued at AU$174 million.

  • Microsoft Brings Azure Virtual Machines to Arm Processors

    Microsoft Brings Azure Virtual Machines to Arm Processors

    Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines are making their way to Arm processors, bringing significant performance improvements over x86.

    Arm processors have become popularized by mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets. Virtually every major manufacturer uses Arm-based processors in their devices. Apple has taken it one step further, basing the M1 powering its Mac lineup on the architecture. Arm chips are renowned for offering desktop-class performance at a fraction of the power consumption x86 chips are known for.

    As the second-largest cloud provider, Microsoft is now making its Azure Virtual Machines available for Ampere Altra Arm-based processor, providing as much as 50% more price-performance than comparable x86 options.

    The company’s customers are already reaping the benefits.

    “We power better journeys through travel technology. To achieve that, we design and deliver the most complex, trusted, and critical systems that our customers need”, said Denis Lacroix, SVP Cloud Transformation Program at Amadeus. “Travelers demand that their needs are met efficiently and quickly, and that they receive a consistent, personalized experience through every step of their journeys, from inspiration to search and booking, to ticketing, check-in, and arriving home. With Azure Arm64 VMs, we will be able to deliver higher throughput and even better experiences than the x86 VM that we’ve used in the past. Azure Arm64 VM series have proven to be a reliable platform for our applications, and we’ve accelerated our plans to deploy Arm64-based Azure solutions.”

    The new VMs are available in preview, but interested parties can fill out this form to request early access.

  • Google Cloud Losing EU Talent to AWS

    Google Cloud Losing EU Talent to AWS

    Google Cloud’s European division has a talent problem, as AWS has poached one of its top executives.

    Google Cloud is currently vying for position in the cloud market. Despite sitting in third place, CEO Thomas Kurian has made it clear he wants to take the number two spot within the next few years. Unfortunately for the company, it seems to be having trouble keeping its EU talent, something that could make competing decidedly difficult.

    According to Business Insider, telecoms chief Marielle Lindgren has left Google Cloud to take a position at AWS, one she has been raving about on LinkedIn.

    I am happy to share that I have started a new position as General Manager Nordics, Baltics & Benelux at Amazon Web Services…Two weeks in, and I am amazed about all the inspiring colleagues I have met, and the great opportunity that lies ahead. Thank you all Amazonians for the warm welcome! Looking forward to a very exciting time.

    Lindgren’s departure comes on the heels of several others, including Chris Ciauri in March 2021, Pip White who went back to Salesforce in June, and Sanj Bhayro who went to Intercome in November. The latter two were both recruited by Ciauri from Salesforce, where the trio had previously worked.

    If Google Cloud is going to overtake Microsoft for the number two spot, let alone challenge AWS for the top spot, the company will need to do a better job of keeping its talent from abandoning ship.

  • Nevada and AWS Partner to Provide Cloud Training and Certification

    Nevada and AWS Partner to Provide Cloud Training and Certification

    The state of Nevada has partnered with Amazon to help provide training and certification programs to residents.

    Cloud computing has become increasingly important, especially in the wake of the pandemic, with cloud computing experts in high demand. Nevada is looking to capitalize on that with training programs that will help some 2,500 residents get certified over the next three years, according to NBC affiliate KSNV.

    “Nevada is leading the nation by having K-12, higher education institutions, and government workforce agencies working together to incorporate AWS education programs and cloud computing into their academic and workforce programs to help prepare students for cloud careers,” Governor Stephen F. Sisolak said in a statement.

    The partnership is another win for AWS, the world’s leading cloud provider.

  • Latest Version of Teams Brings Customer Lockbox and Improved Search

    Latest Version of Teams Brings Customer Lockbox and Improved Search

    Microsoft has released a new version of Teams, bringing Customer Lockbox and improved search.

    Microsoft Teams has quickly overtaken Slack to become the dominant corporate messaging platform, topping 270 monthly active users. The latest version brings a number of major improvements, especially to search, and security.

    One of the most notable additions to the app is the inclusion of Microsoft’s Customer Lockbox feature. Customer Lockbox addresses one of the biggest issues with cloud platforms, securing data that must be kept private, including from the cloud provider itself. Teams now includes the feature, giving users the ability to keep their most private information private.

    Search has been given a major overhaul, making results faster, more intuitive, and visually easier to interact with.

    A new search results page experience from Microsoft Search in Teams will make finding messages, people, answers, and files faster and more intuitive. A new All page will show top results from each domain, Bookmark, and Acronym.

    This new experience will provide better answers, decluttered search result snippets, preview message results for more context, more discoverable filters, and previews for files with better relevance based on the people and content you engage with most in Teams and other Microsoft 365 services.

    The new features are sure to improve the experience for Teams users

  • Boeing Goes Multicloud, Choosing Top Three Providers

    Boeing Goes Multicloud, Choosing Top Three Providers

    Boeing is increasing its investment in its cloud infrastructure, tapping the top three providers for a multicloud approach.

    AWS, Microsoft, and Google Cloud are the top three players in the cloud market, and it appears Boeing wants to work with all of them, rather than going all-in on a single one. The company “announced a significant investment” today, expanding its existing relationships with each of the companies.

    “These partnerships will strengthen our ability to test a system – or an aircraft – hundreds of times using digital twin technology before it is deployed,” said Susan Doniz, Boeing chief information officer and senior vice president of Information Technology & Data Analytics. “Our partners will help Boeing take advantage of the best the industry has to offer while enabling employees to tap into leading tools, training and experts to improve skills and learn new ones.”

    While many companies choose to build their business around a single cloud provider, many experts believe multicloud deployments are the future of the industry, and offer the best combination of reliability and scalability.

    Boeing seems to agree, citing their belief that a multicloud approach is critical to the company’s success and sustainability.

    “No one company or industry can ensure a sustainable future alone,” said Boeing Chief Sustainability Officer Chris Raymond. “We’re grateful to partner with technology leaders like AWS, Google, and Microsoft, who share our commitment to reducing carbon emissions.”