Amazon Web Services

Alan Shimel, Mike Vizard, Jack Poller, Ira Winkler, Jeff Reich and Chris Short discuss the odds that demand for agentic artificial intelligence will grow enough to justify today’s heavy investment in AI infrastructure. The gang then looks at how AI is about to transform cybersecurity before examining why the European Union is investigating Amazon Web Services and Microsoft. ...

Update I joined Rob Hirschfeld on the The 2030 Cloud where we discussed some additional behind the scenes investigatory work that went on by a nameless Amazon Web Services (AWS) employee. Summary Here’s a summary in case you just got a scary AWS bill: I received an AWS bill for $2,700, which was much higher than expected. I traced the high bill to a 13GB disk image that he had stored in an S3 bucket and exposed through a CDN. The CDN was trying and failing to cache the disk image, which was causing high bandwidth utilization. ...