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Cloud Computing

Microsoft plans record $30 billion in quarterly capital spending to meet surging AI demand

Microsoft plans to invest more than $30 billion in capital expenditures in the upcoming quarter — a new high —… Read More

Amazon Q2 earnings preview: AI bets, cloud growth, and tariff changes in the spotlight

Amazon’s infrastructure investments and cloud business will go under the microscope Thursday when the company reports second-quarter financial results —… Read More

Microsoft earnings preview: AI fuels cloud growth, boosts capital costs, reshapes workforce

[Update, July 30: Microsoft beats expectations, says Azure revenue tops $75B annually in new financial disclosure.] Microsoft is expected to… Read More

Microsoft contains SharePoint security wildfire, but questions linger about on-premises software

Editor’s note: This is a guest analysis from Christopher Budd, who previously spent a decade at the Microsoft Security Response… Read More

Podcast

Inside Amazon’s AI deployment team: Lessons from the front lines of enterprise adoption

On this episode of the GeekWire Podcast, we dive into enterprise AI adoption with Francessca Vasquez, a vice president at… Read More

Amazon cuts hundreds of AWS cloud jobs after strategic review, says AI wasn’t the main factor

Amazon confirmed Thursday morning that it’s cutting jobs within its Amazon Web Services cloud division after a review of its… Read More

Amazon gives $100M boost to AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, betting on agentic AI

Amazon is investing another $100 million in its AWS Generative AI Innovation Center, aiming to help companies go from experimenting… Read More

AI optimism pushes Microsoft above $500/share — will it be next to join the $4 trillion club?

Microsoft shares closed above $500 for the first time Wednesday — a symbolic milestone as Wall Street increasingly bets on… Read More

Microsoft and the microbiome: Viome works with tech giant to optimize AI for molecular health

Viome, a life sciences startup founded by veteran tech entrepreneur Naveen Jain, announced a collaboration with Microsoft to scale its… Read More

Podcast

15 years, 5 big shifts: What we’ve seen in Seattle tech since starting the GeekWire Podcast

Fifteen years ago, Steve Jobs and Apple had just introduced the first iPad, Steve Ballmer’s Microsoft had been left for… Read More

Amazon to invest $10B in North Carolina to fuel AI and cloud data center infrastructure

Amazon announced plans Wednesday to invest $10 billion in North Carolina to expand its data center infrastructure to support AI… Read More

Microsoft taps LinkedIn CEO for dual role leading Office in AI strategy shift

LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky will take on a second role under a new Microsoft organizational structure, overseeing Office apps in… Read More

Microsoft: No evidence Israeli military used its technology to harm civilians, reviews find

[Updated below with comments from the employee group No Azure for Apartheid.] Microsoft said Thursday that it found no evidence… Read More

Generative AI tops cybersecurity in 2025 tech budget priorities, new AWS study finds

Generative AI will surpass cybersecurity in many corporate tech budgets this year —  with 45% of global IT leaders naming… Read More

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Amazon earnings preview: Cloud growth, AI demand, and tariff risks in focus

Amazon is set to report first-quarter earnings after the market closes on Thursday, May 1, offering a fresh look at… Read More

Microsoft earnings preview: Cloud and AI growth will be tested by economic turmoil

Microsoft’s business may not be as exposed to the risk of tariffs as some of its tech rivals, but economic… Read More

Event Calendar

Open Confidential Computing Conference (OC3)

OC3 is the conference for the open-source confidential computing community. Join core committers and contributors, new and advanced users, as… Read More

Illustration: D-Orbit ION in orbit

The cloud in orbit: Amazon Web Services demonstrates data analysis on a satellite

For the past 10 months, Amazon Web Services has been running data through its cloud-based software platform on what’s arguably… Read More

Visualization of global cloud connections

Lockheed Martin teams up with Microsoft on classified cloud services for Pentagon

Lockheed Martin and Microsoft say they’re deepening their strategic relationship to help power the next generation of computing and communications… Read More

Illustration: Axiom Space modules attached to International Space Station

LEOcloud, Microsoft team up with Axiom Space to put cloud infrastructure in orbit

When Houston-based Axiom Space starts putting together its commercial space station, some out-of-this-world infrastructure for cloud computing could be close… Read More

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Microsoft and Amazon take on new roles in Pentagon’s space communication plans

Microsoft Azure Space, Amazon Web Services and Amazon’s Project Kuiper satellite network are now among the Pentagon’s partners in a… Read More

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Microsoft Azure ramps up access to cloud computing via SpaceX’s Starlink satellites

With SpaceX’s help, Microsoft is taking the next step toward merging cloud computing with available-anywhere satellite connectivity. Today Microsoft announced… Read More

NOAA-18 in orbit

Microsoft and Xplore team up with NOAA to demonstrate cloud-based satellite operations

What do you do with an aging weather satellite? If you’re the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, you turn to… Read More

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Google developers set another record for calculating digits of pi: 100 trillion!

Three years after Seattle software developer Emma Haruka Iwao and her teammates at Google set the world record for calculating… Read More

Steve Ballmer praises Amazon CEO Andy Jassy in Time’s ‘100 Most Influential People’ tribute

Calling him a “great leader” with “incredible intellectual capacity and curiosity,” former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer heaps praise on Andy… Read More

Boeing engineers at computer

Amazon, Google or Microsoft? Boeing chooses all of the above for cloud computing services

The billion-dollar competition to provide Boeing with cloud computing services is finished, and the winner is … a three-way split.… Read More

Microsoft Azure widens its space ecosystem through deals with Airbus and data partners

One year after Microsoft expanded its Azure cloud domain to the final frontier, the company is taking another giant leap… Read More

Telesat Phase 1 LEO satellite

Microsoft and Ball Aerospace enlist the cloud to speed up Space Force’s data flow

How will Pentagon planners cope with the torrents of data that are expected to rain down from a constellation of… Read More

International Space Station

Microsoft and HPE team up to connect Azure cloud to International Space Station

The sky’s not the limit for the cloud: Microsoft is partnering with Hewlett Packard Enterprise to bring Azure cloud computing… Read More

Microsoft joins $2B investment in Cruise to speed commercialization of self-driving vehicles

Microsoft is partnering with Cruise and General Motors to accelerate the commercialization of self-driving vehicles by bringing its cloud computing… Read More

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