Amazon and Microsoft take aim at new workloads with souped-up cloud services
April 18, 2015
Grazed from InfoWorld. Author: Mikael Ricknäs.
Hoping to move new applications to the cloud, Amazon has launched a new virtual server with four high-end GPUs, while Microsoft has made its SSD-based storage offering generally available.
Amazon and Microsoft have methodically been launching new services and adding features to EC2 and Azure, respectively, to make the platforms more competitive and a better fit for different applications…