Articles about Cloud Computing

Worlds collide at Amazon Spheres as pro-Palestinian group protests cloud giant’s Israel contracts

Carrying bullhorns and signs depicting Amazon executives as war criminals, about two dozen people protested outside the Spheres in Seattle on Thursday evening, calling on the company to stop providing technology to Israel for what they described as genocide in Gaza. Read More

Former AWS CEO Adam Selipsky to lead new $10B AI data center venture

Former Amazon Web Services CEO Adam Selipsky is returning to the world of cloud infrastructure as co-founder and CEO of Helix Digital Infrastructure, a newly-launched company backed by more than $10 billion. Read More

‘This is Seattle’s position on AI’: City Council votes unanimously to pause big new data centers

The Seattle City Council voted 9-0 to halt applications for data centers larger than 20 megavolt-amperes for one year, while the city studies their impact on the power grid, water supply, utility rates, and economy. The moratorium takes effect as soon as Mayor Katie Wilson signs it. Read More

Snowflake commits $6B to Amazon Web Services over 5 years in latest AI infrastructure deal

Snowflake committed to spend $6 billion on AWS over five years, including the use of Amazon’s custom Graviton processors. The deal adds to a growing list of large-scale AI infrastructure commitments on AWS from Anthropic, OpenAI, and Meta. Read More

StitcherAI emerges from stealth with $3M and a different take on the AI spending problem

StitcherAI, founded by a pair of Seattle enterprise tech veterans, launched Tuesday with $3 million in pre-seed funding and a platform that pushes cost data into the tools where spending decisions are made, rather than relying on traditional dashboards. Read More

Microsoft tops Wall Street expectations, reports accelerating Azure growth and $37B AI run rate

Microsoft’s Azure cloud business accelerated in the March quarter, growing 40% and topping the company’s own forecast, giving the tech giant a new answer to questions about its ability to translate record capital spending on AI infrastructure into stronger financial results. Read More

OpenAI’s models land on Amazon Bedrock, one day after Microsoft exclusivity ends

SAN FRANCISCO — Amazon moved quickly Tuesday to capitalize on OpenAI’s new relationship status with Microsoft, launching a preview of OpenAI’s models on its Bedrock platform less than 24 hours after the ChatGPT maker was freed from its previously exclusive cloud arrangement. Read More

Amazon earnings preview: Big AI deals meet a $200B spending binge

Amazon reports Q1 earnings Wednesday with a $244 billion cloud backlog and blockbuster deals with Meta, OpenAI, and Anthropic, but investors are watching whether the company’s $200 billion spending plan is starting to pay off. Read More

Microsoft earnings preview: After a $357B wipeout, tech giant gets another chance

Microsoft reports fiscal Q3 results Wednesday. Here’s a preview of the key numbers, storylines, and context heading into the report, including Azure growth expectations, Copilot adoption, capital spending, and the organizational changes reshaping the company. Read More

Amazon doubles down on Anthropic with $25B investment, mirroring its OpenAI cloud deal

Two months after investing $50 billion in OpenAI and striking a $100 billion cloud deal, Amazon announced a similar arrangement with its original AI partner, Anthropic: up to $25 billion in new investment and a $100 billion-plus commitment to AWS over 10 years. Read More

Amazon revamps S3 cloud storage for the AI era, removing a key barrier for apps and agents

Amazon Web Services is making it possible to access data stored in its S3 cloud storage service as a traditional file system, bridging a divide between two types of storage that has frustrated developers and data scientists for nearly two decades. Read More

AWS at 20*: Inside the rise of Amazon’s cloud empire, and what’s at stake in the AI era

With Amazon marking the 20th anniversary of AWS this month, GeekWire spoke with early builders, current AWS insiders, and longtime observers of the company to tell the story of how the business got started, how it won the cloud, and what it’s up against now. Read More

Amazon pushes back on Financial Times report blaming AI coding tools for AWS outages

Amazon issued an unusually pointed rebuttal to a Financial Times report that its AI coding tools caused AWS outages, calling one key claim “entirely false.” Read More

Cloud and AWS cost consultant Duckbill expands to software, raises $7.75M for new Skyway platform

Cloud cost consultant Duckbill, known for co-founder Corey Quinn’s sharp takes on AWS, raises $7.75M and launches Skyway, a financial planning and forecasting platform for enterprise cloud spending. Read More

Podcast

Amazon’s big bet, a ‘MySpace for bots,’ and a conversation with AI veteran Oren Etzioni

Amazon bets $200 billion on AI infrastructure, AI agents get their own social network, and AI veteran Oren Etzioni talks agents, startups, deepfakes, and the race between the major AI research labs and big tech platforms. Read More

Amazon CEO Andy Jassy defends $200B spending plan: ‘This isn’t some sort of quixotic top-line grab’

Amazon’s cloud unit posted its fastest growth in more than three years, but the company’s plan to spend $200 billion on infrastructure in 2026 sent shares tumbling 10% after hours. Read More

Microsoft’s historic plunge: Why the company lost $357 billion in value despite strong results

Microsoft beat its own forecast. Revenue rose 17%. Cloud crossed $50 billion. So why did the stock fall 10%, erasing $357 billion in market value? We dig into the numbers behind the company’s worst post-earnings drop in 13 years. Read More

Microsoft earnings preview: Record capital spending puts a bigger spotlight on cloud growth

Microsoft is heading into its earnings report this week facing what one analyst calls a “prove it” moment, with investors looking for signs that its massive AI bet is translating into sustained cloud growth. Read More

Vega Cloud enters receivership, with millions in debt, in surprise turn for Spokane tech standout

Once a fast-growing cloud management startup with millions in revenue, Vega Cloud has entered receivership, saying it can no longer pay its debts. In the tight-knit Spokane tech community, Vega Cloud had been seen as a startup with the potential to make it big. Read More

How Microsoft is betting on AI agents in Windows, dusting off a winning playbook from the past

Microsoft is pushing AI agents deep into Windows, reviving a platform strategy that once made the PC operating system dominant. The question is whether that approach can still work in a world defined by phones, browsers, and the cloud. Read More

Podcast

The stories that defined 2025: AI dreams, brutal realities, and Seattle tech at a turning point

The past year may go down as one of the most consequential in technology history — in Seattle and beyond. On this special year-end episode of the GeekWire Podcast, we look back at the stories that defined 2025, from AI’s rapid rise and massive infrastructure bets to layoffs, shifting tech jobs, and what it all means for Seattle’s future. Read More

Google looks to buy its way out of the AI power crunch with $4.75B Intersect acquisition

Google parent Alphabet’s $4.75 billion acquisition of clean energy developer Intersect is a major Pacific Northwest exit that shows how cloud giants are racing to secure the power needed to fuel their AI data center ambitions. Read More

Filing: Human rights proposals win more than 25% of votes at Microsoft shareholder meeting

Two human rights proposals at Microsoft’s annual shareholder meeting drew support from more than a quarter of voting shares — far more than any other shareholder proposals this year. Read More

30 years after Microsoft went ‘all-in’ on the internet, the tech giant’s AI strategy echoes the past

Thirty years after Bill Gates declared Microsoft was going “all-in” on the internet, echoes of that moment are resurfacing in the company’s sweeping AI push. The parallels — and the differences — reveal how Microsoft is navigating another era-defining shift. Read More

Microsoft shareholders invoke Orwell and Copilot as Nadella cites ‘generational moment’

Microsoft’s shareholder meeting Friday morning highlighted a sharp divide: executives promoting a “planet-scale” AI future while investors voiced concerns about censorship, bias, privacy, and geopolitical entanglements. All six outside shareholder proposals — focused largely on AI risks — were voted down based on early results, Read More

AWS CEO Matt Garman thought Amazon needed a million developers — until AI changed his mind

AWS CEO Matt Garman says Amazon’s biggest constraint is no longer hiring engineers — it’s coming up with the right ideas. In a re:Invent conversation with the Acquired podcast, he detailed how AI is reshaping development, revealed Bedrock’s scale, and explained why Amazon is “particularly bad” at copying competitors. Read More