Neowin News Feed for: Cloud

World Backup Day: How are you keeping your digital life protected?

Steven Parker — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:02:02 +0000

Today is World Backup Day, a time to reflect on how you're protecting your digital files in an ever distributed world. We'll share tips on how to keep safe, and look for advice from our readers too! Read more...

[Spring Sale] Get a 2TB lifetime subscription to FolderFort for just $102

Neowin Deals — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:46:01 +0000

Fast, scalable and easy to use cloud storage for your files, backups, and more. Whatsmore, they claim 99.99% uptime guaranteed. Read more...

Save 84% on an OnlineDrive Cloud Storage: Lifetime Subscription

Neowin Deals — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 19:00:02 +0000

Everything you need to store, manage and share your files! 1TB storage, 100+ file previews, team workspaces, enterprise security, and 99.9% uptime. Read more...

AWS case-study Perplexity signs $750M, three-year Azure deal with Microsoft

Pradeep Viswanathan — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 15:40:02 +0000

Perplexity AI has signed a $750 million deal with Microsoft to access a wider range of frontier models from OpenAI and xAI via Microsoft Foundry. Read more...

IBM preparing for a massive $11 billion acquisition of Confluent to boost cloud efforts

Paul Hill — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 06:58:01 +0000

IBM is close to an $11 billion deal to acquire Confluent, an open-source data platform, as it seeks to boost its cloud services amid the generative AI race. Read more...

Price Drop: 2TB of FolderFort Cloud Storage Pro is now 86% off

Neowin Deals — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 20:00:01 +0000

Fast, scalable and easy to use cloud storage for your files, backups, and more. Whatsmore, they claim 99.99% uptime guaranteed. Read more...

TerraMaster F2-425 review: a low cost local cloud backup and streaming NAS

Steven Parker — Sun, 26 Oct 2025 16:10:01 +0000

If you want to dip your toes in the realm of self-storage and streaming, the F2-425 has you covered with two HDD bays and a 2.5 GbE connection. Read more...

Anthropic's Claude Code is now available on the web

Karthik Mudaliar — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:16:01 +0000

Anthropic has unveiled its terminal-based AI coding assistant, and it is now available on the web, managed by Anthropic's own cloud infrastructure. Read more...

Deal Alert: 2TB of FolderFort Cloud Storage Pro is now 83% off

Neowin Deals — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 21:00:01 +0000

Fast, scalable and easy to use cloud storage for your files, backups, and more. Whatsmore, they claim 99.99% uptime guaranteed, Ha ha! Read more...

Microsoft launches marketplace to sell AI apps and agents

Usama Jawad — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 06:36:01 +0000

Microsoft has combined several storefronts into a single platform to sell AI and cloud solutions to enterprise partners. Read more...

Word documents created on Windows will automatically be saved to the cloud

Usama Jawad — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 20:40:02 +0000

Microsoft has announced that Word for Windows will autosave content to the cloud by default. The feature is currently being tested with Insiders. Read more...

AWS Free Tier overhauled: New users get $200 in credits, but there's a catch

Paul Hill — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 04:16:01 +0000

Amazon has overhauled its AWS Free Tier program to be more generous in terms of credits, but there is one downgrade. Read more...

Boost your Cloud storage with an Internxt 20TB plan, now at 89% off

Neowin Deals — Mon, 26 May 2025 17:00:01 +0000

Store, share, and send your files and photos on the cloud from any device and operating system with this lifetime plan. Read more...

AWS now makes more money than Microsoft's Cloud and Server business combined

Pradeep Viswanathan — Thu, 01 May 2025 22:10:02 +0000

Amazon's AWS has reported higher revenue and operating income for Q1 2025 than Microsoft's entire Intelligent Cloud segment. Read more...

Microsoft Azure Local is a new hybrid infrastructure solution that replaces Azure Stack HCI

Pradeep Viswanathan — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 13:30:27 +0000

Microsoft announced Azure Local, a new hybrid infrastructure solution that replaces Azure Stack HCI. Azure Local offers much broader capabilities. Read more...

Microsoft announces Drasi, an open source Data Change Processing platform

Pradeep Viswanathan — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 06:02:01 +0000

Microsoft has launched Drasi, an open-source platform designed to simplify data change processing by using continuous queries and automated reactions. Read more...

Microsoft announces partnership with Rezolve AI, a leader in AI-powered retail solutions

Pradeep Viswanathan — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 13:38:01 +0000

Microsoft and Rezolve AI have partnered to bring AI-powered commerce and retail solutions to businesses worldwide. Read more...

Price Drop: up to 86% off subscriptions to FolderFort Pro Plans

Neowin Deals — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 17:00:01 +0000

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Neowin Deals — Tue, 24 Sep 2024 17:00:01 +0000

With today's highlighted deal, save almost $700 off the cost for this lifetime plan and securely store and share your files to any device with this cloud storage service. Save bigly with Neowin Deals! Read more...

Amazon AWS segment now has an annualized revenue run rate of more than $105B

Pradeep Viswanathan — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 04:12:01 +0000

Amazon reported its Q2 2024 results, with overall revenue up 10% year-over-year. While retail growth was modest, AWS posted 19% growth, reaching an annualized revenue of $105 billion. Read more...

Oracle plans to open a $1 billion data centre in Madrid

Paul Hill — Fri, 21 Jun 2024 05:38:01 +0000

Oracle has announced that it'll invest $1 billion in Madrid to expand its data centre presence in the region. It is pitching itself as a solution for the financial sector which thrives in Madrid. Read more...

Microsoft is reportedly asking hundreds of Chinese employees to relocate out of the country

Karthik Mudaliar — Thu, 16 May 2024 08:04:01 +0000

Microsoft is asking hundreds of employees who are working in China across cloud and machine learning divisions to relocate out of China to the U.S., Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand Read more...

Microsoft commits €4 billion to French AI infrastructure and training

Omer Dursun — Mon, 13 May 2024 09:40:02 +0000

France's AI ambitions are getting a boost with Microsoft's €4 billion investment in new data centers, AI training, and support for startups. This commitment aims to position France as a leader in AI. Read more...

Vodafone partners up with Microsoft to improve its processes using AI and Cloud

Karthik Mudaliar — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 10:00:01 +0000

Vodafone is joining hands with Microsoft to harness the power of AI, Cloud and other digital services in an attempt to "transform the customer experience" across Europe, the UK, and Africa. Read more...

Cloud Native Software Security Handbook ($36.99 Value) free, for your work email

Sponsored — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 17:00:02 +0000

This book covers technologies that secure infrastructure, containers, and runtime environments using vendor-agnostic cloud native tools. Get it for free today before the offer expires. Read more...

Mastering Microsoft 365 ($39.99 Value) FREE download

Sponsored — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 17:00:02 +0000

Get ready to gain deep insights into this cutting-edge technology from industry insiders. By the end of this book, you will be able to successfully plan, set up, and deploy Windows 365 Cloud PCs. Read more...

Worldwide IT spending to grow 8% next year, says analyst firm

Paul Hill — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 09:48:02 +0000

Worldwide IT spending is set to grow by 8% next year according to the analyst firm Gartner. Cloud spending is set to be a big driver and spending on devices is predicted to increase too. Read more...

Cloud Auditing Best Practices ($35.99 Value) FREE download

Sponsored — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 14:00:02 +0000

By the end of this book, you will be able to confidently apply and assess security controls for AWS, Azure, and GCP, allowing you to effectively confirm compliance in the cloud, all for free! Read more...

Microsoft Azure grew 26% year-over-year during Q2 2023

Paul Hill — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 18:38:01 +0000

Microsoft Azure managed to grow 26% during the second quarter year-over-year. At that growth rate, it did better than Amazon Web Services but was behind Google Cloud which grew by 31%. Read more...

Microsoft top in public cloud services market in 2022, says IDC

Paul Hill — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 15:38:01 +0000

Microsoft saw the most public cloud services revenue in 2022, according to the analyst IDC. It said that Microsoft held 16.8% of the market share compared to AWS' 13.5% market share. Read more...

Report: Microsoft could restrict Azure customers based in China

Paul Hill — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 19:20:01 +0000

Chinese companies could soon be restricted from using some Microsoft cloud services. The US is supposedly readying restrictions that would limit Chinese access to cloud services that use AI chips. Read more...

Google files a complaint against Microsoft for using anti-competitive cloud practices

Mehrotra A — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 19:46:01 +0000

In a formal complaint to the FTC, Google has accused Microsoft of using its position in the enterprise market to push licensing terms in its software to lock customers into its Azure cloud business. Read more...

Microsoft fails to settle with European cloud providers amid EU antitrust investigation

Omer Dursun — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 11:14:01 +0000

Microsoft fails to settle with the CISPE ahead of the EU cloud market dominance investigation. Allegations include unfair bundling and lock-ins and EU antitrust case looming. Here are the details. Read more...

India to see AWS invest $12.7 billion into cloud infrastructure by 2030

Paul Hill — Thu, 18 May 2023 16:35:47 +0000

AWS has said it will invest $12.7 billion in cloud infrastructure in India to meet growing demand. The investments will be made between now and 2030 and build on several other investments. Read more...

The European Union's antitrust watchdog launches an investigation into Microsoft Azure

Mehrotra A — Mon, 15 May 2023 20:22:01 +0000

The European Union has asked customers and firms to submit documents and complaints over Microsoft's use of confidential business information to gain leverage over other cloud-service providers. Read more...

Toyota has been exposing cloud customer data publicly for a decade due to human error

Paul Hill — Fri, 12 May 2023 20:02:01 +0000

Toyota left the cloud data of its customers exposed to the public for nearly a decade, it has been reported. Thankfully, the company seems to have detected the issue before the data was misused. Read more...

Box announces AI integration into its products in partnership with OpenAI

Karthik Mudaliar — Tue, 02 May 2023 14:32:02 +0000

Box is partnering up with OpenAI to bring generative AI capabilities into its products. Users can ask Box AI to summarize or answer questions about their documents or other data over the cloud. Read more...

Microsoft and AWS could be investigated by UK authorities for anti-competitive behaviour

Paul Hill — Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:24:01 +0000

Ofcom has proposed that the competition watchdog in the UK investigate cloud providers like Microsoft and Amazon AWS to see if they're engaged in anti-competitive practices after it noticed issues. Read more...

Google adds file limits to Drive, consequently locking user accounts [Update]

Steve Bennett — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 13:42:01 +0000

Users have woken up to messages from Google Drive that ask them to delete files to continue using the account, as Google has now applied file limits to user accounts without prior warning. Read more...

Amazon Linux 2023, a cloud-optimized Linux distro, is now available

Paul Hill — Sat, 18 Mar 2023 22:14:01 +0000

Amazon Linux 2023 was released earlier this week. Amazon said that with this release it aims to deliver a high-security standard, a predictable lifecycle, and deterministic updates. Read more...